Re: Linux application level timers?

[Alan E Derhaag <aederhaag attbi com>]

Tom Sanders <developer_linux yahoo com> writes:

> I'm writing an application server which receives
> requests from other applications. For each request
> received, I want to start a timer so that I can fail
> the application request if it could not be completed
> in max specified time.
> 
> Which Linux timer facility can be used for this?
> 
> I have checked out alarm() and signal() system calls,
> but these calls doesn't take an argument, so its not
> possible to associate application request with the
> matured alarm.
> 
> Any inputs?

man 2 alarm OR man 2 setitimer..