Re:Timeout in 4GL Programms

Posted in 1996

Tom Beuke — Thu, 2 May 96 12:51:46 +0100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

tvarnas@compulink.gr (Apostolos Varnas) schrieb : tv>I want to implement a timeout of a 4GL application from inside the tv>application.I tried to use alarm() but I found out that alarm() is used tv>internally from Informix and thus resetted after each keyboard stroke. tv>This point was also addressed by Jonathan Leffler in another article I tv>found in the CDI Archive. tv>Is there a way to prevent Informix from using the alarm() function or tv>another way to accomplish a timeout from inside the 4GL application. We solved this problem by calling alarm() after _every_ input event ! We needed the alarm-function to restart the program after some time without any input. --- _ // Tom Beuke Mail : tob@blanker.ruhr.de _ // Westhoffstr.13-15 Tel. : +49 231 839757 \\X/ 44145 Dortmund --- 5 Kilometer zum Nachbarn, 18 Kilometer zum Arzt, 889 Kilometer zur Tochter, 3 Schritte zum Telefon, 2000,-DM Telefonrechnung im Monat ...