Thread: Help! Need some clarification.

Hi,

I have these ff. code:

Code:

/*test/dummy progam*/

#include <time.h>
//var declaration
clock_t start, finish;
double  duration;
double  limit = 5.00; // roughly equal to 5 seconds
int x;

int main(){
    //
    //
    //
    start = clock();
    x=1;

        while(1){
            finish = clock();
            duration = (finish - start) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC;

            if(limit < duration){
                 /* do stuff....*/      
                 printf("round %d",x++); // for example
                start = clock();
                duration =0.00;
            }

        }
return 0;
}

I know that this is not resourece friendly type of code. The code above is a test/dummy program ,the program while running will execute the printf() in every 5 second.
The test/dummy program works fine but when I try to insert this logic to the project that I'm currently working on , it does not work.
The project mentioned here is converted/or run as a Windows service.

I've written the test/dummy program as a Win32 console application. The project that I've mentioned is previously a Win32 console application before it is converted to run as a windows service.

Can anyone tell me why this is happening?

I'm Using MVC6 and my os is Win2K.

BTW: when I tried to convert the test/dummy program run run as a Windows service, the test/dummy program does not execute - I mean does not print ( I've change the printf() to a writeToLog type of function).

any kind of help will be appreciated.

edit: the test/dummy program above is somewhat my solution to my previous thread A Timed Function in C


regards,
jaro

You're supposed to use difftime() to figure out the difference between two clock_ts, not x-y.