Example
Using alarm, user can schedule SIGALARM signal to be raised after specified interval. In case user did not blocked, ignored or specified explicit signal handler for this signal, the default action for this signal will be performed on arrival. Per specification default action for SIGALARM is to terminate the process:
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main (int argc, char** argv)
{
printf("Hello!\n");
// Set the alarm for five second
alarm(5); // Per POSIX, this cannot fail
// Now sleep for 15 seconds
for (int i = 1; i <= 15; i++)
{
printf("%d\n", i);
sleep(1);
}
// And print the message before successful exit
printf("Goodbye!\n");
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
This outputs:
Hello!
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[2] 35086 alarm ./a.out
