Mono Class Library: Mono.Unix.Native.Syscall Overview | Members

Mono.Unix.Native.Syscall.alarm Method

If the call completes successfully, the taks will receive a SIGALARM signal after a delay of seconds seconds. A delay of zero seconds simply cancel the alarm. If an previous alarm was activated when the call is made then the previous alarm is cancelled. [Edit]

public static uint alarm (uint seconds)

Parameters

seconds
Documentation for this section has not yet been entered. [Edit]

Returns

If a previous alarm was activated, the call returns the time delay before the expiration of that previous alarm (now canceled). Otherwise, it returns zero. [Edit]

Remarks

[Edit]

Requirements

Namespace: Mono.Unix.Native
Assembly: Mono.Posix (in Mono.Posix.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0