Using a multishot timer with Tuxedo

Hi all,
this may be a little off topic but basicly what I'm trying to do is
create a WLE (ie: Essentially Tux ) server that can be interrupted
say every 10 seconds and forced to perform some action. I don't
want to use a second server since it just adds extra dependencies
and failover issues.
On Solaris I appear to be able to use the Usignal and simply
register for SIGALRM and start a regular alarm.
NT doesn't support alarms and as far as I can tell doesn't lend
itself to event loops in console apps.
Is there a standard way that I can create a multi shot timer
in Tux ( on NT and Solaris ).
Thanks in advance,
Paul Power

Hello Paul Power,
How about using Tuxedo /Q and enqueueing a message with dequeue time delay of
10 seconds.
Then use a TMQFORWARD server to forward the request to ur server.
As this is a Tuxedo based solution, should work everywhere (HP, Sun, etc...)
HTH
rgds
MS
Paul Power <[email protected]> wrote:
>
Hi all,
this may be a little off topic but basicly what I'm trying to do is
create a WLE (ie: Essentially Tux ) server that can be interrupted
say every 10 seconds and forced to perform some action. I don't
want to use a second server since it just adds extra dependencies
and failover issues.
On Solaris I appear to be able to use the Usignal and simply
register for SIGALRM and start a regular alarm.
NT doesn't support alarms and as far as I can tell doesn't lend
itself to event loops in console apps.
Is there a standard way that I can create a multi shot timer
in Tux ( on NT and Solaris ).
Thanks in advance,
Paul Power

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