Re: sigaction api

On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 16:06 -0600, Scott Klement wrote:
> Hi Rich,
> 
> > To answer your question, I want to use the alarm() api in my
> > application, and indeed it does generate a signal when the alarm goes
> > off.
> 
> In response to your question, I decided to fiddle with the alarm() and 
> sigaction() APIs, and I've got them working.  I used this technique as an 
> easy way to make the connect() API time out for an article that will be 
> published in my newsletter tomorrow.
> 
> The source code for the article can be found at the following link, if you 
> want to look at it as a sample for how to use sigaction():
> http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/noderesources/code/clubtechcode/ChkSvr.zip
> 
> Good luck!
> 
Scott, you're a good man.  It's exactly the sort of thing I was wanting
to do, but hadn't gotten around to yet.

Thank you.
--
Regards,
Rich

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