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ALARM(2) Linux Programmer's Manual ALARM(2)
alarm - set an alarm clock for delivery of a signal
#include <unistd.h>
unsigned int alarm(unsigned int seconds);
alarm() arranges for a SIGALRM signal to be delivered to the
calling process in seconds seconds.
If seconds is zero, any pending alarm is canceled.
In any event any previously set alarm() is canceled.
alarm() returns the number of seconds remaining until any
previously scheduled alarm was due to be delivered, or zero if
there was no previously scheduled alarm.
POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, SVr4, 4.3BSD.
alarm() and setitimer(2) share the same timer; calls to one will
interfere with use of the other.
Alarms created by alarm() are preserved across execve(2) and are
not inherited by children created via fork(2).
sleep(3) may be implemented using SIGALRM; mixing calls to
alarm() and sleep(3) is a bad idea.
Scheduling delays can, as ever, cause the execution of the
process to be delayed by an arbitrary amount of time.
gettimeofday(2), pause(2), select(2), setitimer(2), sigaction(2),
signal(2), timer_create(2), timerfd_create(2), sleep(3), time(7)
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Linux 2017-05-03 ALARM(2)
Pages that refer to this page: tload(1), fork(2), getitimer(2), seccomp(2), signal(2), syscalls(2), sleep(3), ualarm(3), usleep(3), systemd.exec(5), signal(7), signal-safety(7), time(7)
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