/**************************************************************************** * libs/libc/unistd/lib_alarm.c * * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The * ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the * License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations * under the License. * ****************************************************************************/ /**************************************************************************** * Included Files ****************************************************************************/ #include #include #include /**************************************************************************** * Public Functions ****************************************************************************/ /**************************************************************************** * Name: alarm * * Description: * The alarm() function will arranges for a SIGALRM signal to be delivered * to the calling process in seconds seconds. * * Interactions between alarm() and any of setitimer() are unspecified. * * Input Parameters: * seconds - The number of seconds to alarm * * Returned Value: * 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. * * Assumptions: * ****************************************************************************/ unsigned int alarm(unsigned int seconds) { struct itimerval value = { {0, 0}, {0, 0} }; struct itimerval ovalue = { {0, 0}, {0, 0} }; value.it_value.tv_sec = seconds; setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, &value, &ovalue); return ovalue.it_value.tv_sec; }