From: "Berger, Daniel" <djberge@...>
Date: 2002-06-07T02:22:10+09:00
Subject: RE: 1-second events

> I need to create an event that occurs exactly once per second.
> (Understanding that this is impossible on Linux, I'm willing 
> to accept a
> solution that will average to exactly one event per second over the
> course of a day).  Someone on irc suggested writing an extension that
> calls setitimer, but 1) I've never used setitimer, so I don't 
> know what
> kinds of problems I might run into, and 2) I'd like a solution that
> doesn't rely on SIGALRM, since that limits me to one timer per
> application.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul

I've never looked at the internals of Time::HiRes (a Perl module), but it
may be worth looking at (and perhaps a port is in order).

You can find it at search.cpan.org.

Regards,

Dan