From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>
Date: 2009-09-09T07:14:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Time based loop limiting

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, 09. Sep 2009, 01:38:33 +0900 schrieb Michael Tomer:
> I'm trying to write a loop that will only run a certain number of times
> per second.

The proper way to do this is to call the setitimer(2) function
that will send SIGALRM periodically to the process. It has been
discussed a long time ago:

  http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/130989

Still I cannot find a setitimer mapping in the Ruby interpreter.
So I wrote my own:

  http://bertram-scharpf.homelinux.com:8808/doc_root/itimer-1.0/rdoc/index.html

Bertram


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