does setitimer() system call use Callout Queue ?

From: <danisment_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 15:09:18 GMT
Message-ID: <8r7k2r$p2u$1@nnrp1.deja.com>

Hi,

Oracle calls setitimer() system call to set timeout before waits not to wait forever.

Callout structure(sys/callout.h) is as below:

struct callout {
struct callout *c_next; /* next callout in queue */ void *c_arg; /* function argument */
void (*c_func) __P((void *)); /* function to call */ int c_time; /* ticks to the event */
};

This structure is matched with timeout() system call but it does not match with the setitimer() system call parameters.

My question is:

how does Oracle use Unix Callout Queue by setitimer() system call, or does it use ?

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Before you buy. Received on Sun Oct 01 2000 - 10:09:18 CDT