Signal handlers:http://www.elook.org/programming/c/signal.html
One point to remember when using Signal handles: it is not possible to pass arguments to the signal handler function (call).
E.g, this “signal(SIGALRM, myfunction(argument));” will not work and may output “invalid use of expression”. So we can only use “signal(SIGALRM, myfunction);”
Now what if you want to pass variable value to the function call? One way I would recommend (easy way) is to store values in a global variable then use it in the function. Below is an example used to obtain time elapsed after several alarm signal calls with global variable “sec” being used in the function:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
int sec=0;
struct timeval t1, t2;
void numsec(){
gettimeofday(&t2,NULL);
sec= t2.tv_sec – t1.tv_sec;
printf(“num seconds elapsed:%d \n”, sec);
}
void main(){
long usec=0;
gettimeofday(&t1,NULL);
while (sec<6){
gettimeofday(&t2,NULL);
sec= t2.tv_sec – t1.tv_sec;
usec= t2.tv_usec – t1.tv_usec;
signal(SIGALRM, numsec);
alarm(2);
pause();
}
}
