timers/ptmr_null_evp.c

This is timers/ptmr_null_evp.c, an example to accompany the book, The Linux Programming Interface.

This file is not printed in the book; it is the solution to Exercise 23-3 (page 512).

The source code file is copyright 2024, Michael Kerrisk, and is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 3.

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/* ptmr_null_evp.c

   A program to demonstrate POSIX timer defaults when the 'evp' argument
   of timer_create() is specified as NULL.

   Kernel support for Linux timers is provided since Linux 2.6. On older
   systems, an incomplete user-space implementation of POSIX timers
   was provided in glibc.
*/
#define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 199309
#include <signal.h>
#include <time.h>
#include "curr_time.h"          /* Declaration of currTime() */
#include "tlpi_hdr.h"
static void
handler(int sig, siginfo_t *si, void *uc)
{
    printf("[%s] Got signal %d\n", currTime("%T"), sig);
    printf("    sival_int          = %d\n", si->si_value.sival_int);
#ifdef __linux__
    printf("    si_overrun         = %d\n", si->si_overrun);
#endif
    printf("    timer_getoverrun() = %d\n",
            timer_getoverrun((timer_t) si->si_value.sival_ptr));
}
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    if (argc < 2)
        usageErr("%s secs [nsecs [int-secs [int-nsecs]]]\n", argv[0]);

    struct sigaction sa;
    sa.sa_flags = SA_SIGINFO;
    sa.sa_sigaction = handler;
    sigemptyset(&sa.sa_mask);
    if (sigaction(SIGALRM, &sa, NULL) == -1)
        errExit("sigaction");

    timer_t tid;
    if (timer_create(CLOCK_REALTIME, NULL, &tid) == -1)
        errExit("timer_create");
    printf("timer ID = %ld\n", (long) tid);

    struct itimerspec ts;
    ts.it_value.tv_sec = atoi(argv[1]);
    ts.it_value.tv_nsec = (argc > 2) ? atoi(argv[2]) : 0;
    ts.it_interval.tv_sec = (argc > 3) ? atoi(argv[3]) : 0;
    ts.it_interval.tv_nsec = (argc > 4) ? atoi(argv[4]) : 0;
    if (timer_settime(tid, 0, &ts, NULL) == -1)
        errExit("timer_settime");

    for (int j = 0; ; j++)
        pause();
}

 

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