Timer Interrupt for pthreads

How can 开发者_如何学运维I implement timer interrupt using pthreads?

I haven't ever seen any such facility in pthread itself, but you could always just use a SIGALARM handler which would notify a thread using a semaphore.

EDIT:

#include <iostream>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>

#include <unistd.h>
#include <signal.h>

#include <pthread.h>
#include <semaphore.h>

static sem_t __semAlaram;

static void* waitForAlaram(void*)
{
    while( true )
    {
        sem_wait( &__semAlaram );
        std::cout << "Got alaram" << std::endl;
    }
    return NULL;
}


typedef void (*sighandler_t)(int);
static sighandler_t __handler = NULL;
static int count = 0;

static void sighandler(int signal)
{
    if ( signal == SIGALRM )
    {
        count++;
        sem_post( &__semAlaram );
        alarm(3);
    }
    else if ( __handler )
        __handler( signal );
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    if ( sem_init( &__semAlaram, 0, 0 ) != 0 )
    {
        std::cerr << strerror( errno ) << std::endl;
        return -1;
    }

    pthread_t thread;
    if ( pthread_create( &thread, NULL, waitForAlaram, NULL ) != 0 )
    {
        std::cerr << strerror( errno ) << std::endl;
        return -1;
    }

    __handler = signal( SIGALRM, sighandler );
    alarm(3);

    while( count < 5 )
    {
        sleep(1);
    }
    return 0;
}

Another way of doing it would to simply using sleep/usleep in the thread itself.

How about creating a thread, and in the thread function calling usleep() in a loop with your desired timer interval as the sleep value, each time also calling your timer "interrupt" callback function?

usleep will make the over all time skewed. at end of the year you would have drifted quite a bit thats why linux provides timers.