ZCOM C I/F Library Routines

ZTIMR (3X)

 

ZTIMR (3X)

NAME

ztimr – Enable/disable ZLU timer

SYNOPSIS

#include

<zcom/zcomsys.h>

#include

<zcom/zcomcall.h> /* if compiled with ANSI C (recommended) */

int32 ztimr (zap, time)

zaddr_type *zap;

int32 time;

DESCRIPTION

Routine ztimr is used to enable or disable the timer on a program ZLU.

 

When enabled, a timer message is added to the program ZLU queue

 

every specified time seconds. Timer messages are of type 3 (see ‘type’ in

 

zread).

 

 

The libraries libzcom_c.a and libpthread.a must be linked into the calling

 

program by giving the options “-lzcom_c -lpthread” to cc(1) or ld(1).

Threads

This routine may be called from a multi-threaded application using the

Considerations

POSIX (1003.1c) kernel threads API package. This routine has the

 

following characteristics when called by a multi-threaded application:

 

cancellation point

Thread cancellation can occur when a thread

 

 

calls this routine.

 

async-cancel unsafe

The calling thread’s cancelability type must be

 

 

PTHREAD_CANCEL_DEFERRED if

 

 

cancellation is enabled.

 

async-signal unsafe

It cannot be called from a signal handler.

 

fork unsafe

It cannot be called by a child process after

 

 

fork(2) but before exec(2).

PARAMETERS

zap ZCOM address (program ZLU).

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