On 20 Sep 2011, dudes dudes spake thusly: > thanks, timer_settime()did the trick :) timer_settime()? You're *setting* the time? In any case, there is no way to do this without either multiple processes, multiple threads, signal handling, or fairly ugly repeated polling. -- Gllug mailing list - Gllug at gllug.org.uk http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug