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Ulm's Modula-2 Library:
SysAlarm
NAME
SysAlarm - set the process alarm clock
SYNOPSIS
VAR previous: CARDINAL; (* previous amount *)
PROCEDURE Alarm(sec: CARDINAL) : BOOLEAN;
DESCRIPTION
Alarm
causes the signal SystemTypes.SIGALRM to be delivered
in sec seconds.
The previous setting of the alarm clock (i.e. the remaining
time in seconds) is stored in previous.
DIAGNOSTICS
Despite the return type of BOOLEAN,
Alarm is not expected to fail.
SEE ALSO
alarm(2)
Edited by: borchert, last change: 1997/02/25, revision: 1.1, converted to HTML: 1997/04/28
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