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authorRoland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>2012-08-17 13:52:32 -0700
committerRoland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>2012-08-17 13:52:32 -0700
commit7c6f9d53c1f57bb9b679fcdb39d2b5a9c63e46d3 (patch)
treea74652f06f7bc02a2bb11ce3dc7adbdfe756fbee /sysdeps/posix/alarm.c
parent3bd9e9931bcb4ae2874a95319a11dff4c604afb6 (diff)
Move some things from sysdeps/unix to sysdeps/posix.
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+/* Copyright (C) 1991,1992,1994,1997,2002,2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+
+ The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+ The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
+ <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <sys/time.h>
+
+/* Schedule an alarm. In SECONDS seconds, the process will get a SIGALRM.
+ If SECONDS is zero, any currently scheduled alarm will be cancelled.
+ The function returns the number of seconds remaining until the last
+ alarm scheduled would have signaled, or zero if there wasn't one.
+ There is no return value to indicate an error, but you can set `errno'
+ to 0 and check its value after calling `alarm', and this might tell you.
+ The signal may come late due to processor scheduling. */
+unsigned int
+alarm (seconds)
+ unsigned int seconds;
+{
+ struct itimerval old, new;
+ unsigned int retval;
+
+ new.it_interval.tv_usec = 0;
+ new.it_interval.tv_sec = 0;
+ new.it_value.tv_usec = 0;
+ new.it_value.tv_sec = (long int) seconds;
+ if (__setitimer (ITIMER_REAL, &new, &old) < 0)
+ return 0;
+
+ retval = old.it_value.tv_sec;
+ /* Round to the nearest second, but never report zero seconds when
+ the alarm is still set. */
+ if (old.it_value.tv_usec >= 500000
+ || (retval == 0 && old.it_value.tv_usec > 0))
+ ++retval;
+ return retval;
+}
+libc_hidden_def (alarm)