Once upon a time I had a similar requirement. My
implementation was kinda ugly, but it worked.
What I did was spawn a child which did the alarm
work. When it's alarm call timed out it sent a SIGUSRx
signal to the parent. In a spool directory I had files
that were used as a primitive IPC method that indicated
what the signal was for.
TIMTOWTDI though...
Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
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