Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 06:03:18 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cynchronised sleep capbilty.. Message-ID: <20050201190318.GE45608@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050201101113.J572@localhost> References: <20050201101113.J572@localhost>
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On Tue, 2005-Feb-01 10:20:24 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: >while: >do > report results > sleep -until_next 10 >done How about: 1) Re-write the loop in C, perl or equivalent using setitimer(). You can system() out to collect the results. 2) <kludge>Write a small C program that uses setitimer() and signals its parent whenever the timer triggers. Run it in the background and just pause within the sh loop.</kludge> -- Peter Jeremy
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