How to cancel a periodic timer started by setitimer() system call?

[arpitkulshreshtha]

Hi,

I have started a periodic timer by setitimer() system call.

Now, at application exit, I want to cancel the timer started for cleanup purpose.

can any one suggest me the way for implementing this?

regards

Arpit

[felPmy]

Get the pid of the running process, and then issue the command "kill <pid>".

[wje_lf]

If you're using setitimer(), you're using it for one or more of these kinds of timing:

1. ITIMER_REAL
2. ITIMER_VIRTUAL
3. ITIMER_PROF

For each kind that you're actually using (or for all three, if you want to keep your code simple), call setitimer() with the second parameter as a pointer to something whose fields:

1. it_interval.tv_sec
2. it_interval.tv_usec
3. it_value.tv_sec
4. it_value.tv_usec

are all set to zero.

Hope this helps.