Re: Time out server mechanism in cygwin

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Amit Grover wrote:

> Hi,
> I read the documents of cygwin but could not find anywhere any
> information about timeout server mechanism in cygwin.
>
> This is what I am trying to achieve,
> I am looking for some kind of mechanism (timeout server mechanism)
> through which Process A can register some message type and user defined
> structure and timeout value (say X) to timeout server and after X
> seconds process A get back this message from the timeout server.
>
> Is there exists any kind of mechanism in cygwin?
>
> Thanks
> Amit

Why would you even need a separate server for this?  Won't the pthreads
functionality let you do what you want within the process (using timed
wait of some sort)?
	Igor
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