alarmc {fame}R Documentation

Interface to alarm() system call

Description

On Unix, this is a simple wrapper around the POSIX alarm() system call. On Windows, no such system call is available, so this function does nothing. It is here only to stop R CMD check from complaining about it not being here.

Usage

alarmc(seconds = 0)

Arguments

seconds ignored

Note

Microsoft, in it's infinite wisdom, does not provide the alarm() system call in its C libraries. Instead, they expect you to use the SetTimer function to do this kind of stuff, but SetTimer is not available to a console-mode application. I do wonder how they get away with claiming POSIX compatibility.

Author(s)

Jeff Hallman

See Also

Sys.sleep


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