timer

[GhH]

Hi,
I am working on a socket programming code and I need to modify part of it. In the code there is a line where a process receives a message :

receive(source, buf);

When a process receives a message, I don't want to deliver the message immediately, what I want is to deliver it at sometime later (with some delay).
do you know how I can do it? I tried the sleep() but it is not what I want, since when the process is asleep,it does not receive next messages until sleep time is elapsed. I think I should use timers, like start a timer when a message is received, and after the timer is expired I deliver the message, and I need to start a timer for each message. I don't know how to do this and which timers I should use. I f anybody can explain this to me, it will be a great help!

thanks a lot!
Ghazale

[CommonTater]

Ok, what you want to do is stuff your message into a linked list of buffers, then get back to receiving.
In a separate thread have a timer running that sends one buffer from the list every tick...

Assuming Windows...CreateThread function (Windows) SetTimer function (Windows)

Assuming Linux... well someone else will know that for sure.

[GhH]

but I don't want to send one buffer from the list every tick, I want to send each buffer after some (and different) delay, any idea how to do that? let's say I receive message 1 at t1 and message 2 at t2, I want to deliver message 1 at t1+delay1 and message 2 at t2+delay2

[CommonTater]

To be honest I have no idea how or why you would want to do that...

[quzah]

man select


Quzah.

[Salem]

Perhaps by delaying the message, the OP is trying to generate some kind of echo effect.

It certainly seems to have a resonant feel about it