<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <title>Timers</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../boostbook.css" type="text/css"> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.73.2"> <link rel="start" href="../../index.html" title="Asio"> <link rel="up" href="../overview.html" title="Overview"> <link rel="prev" href="networking/bsd_sockets.html" title="The BSD Socket API and Asio"> <link rel="next" href="serial_ports.html" title="Serial Ports"> </head> <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> <table cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top"><img alt="asio C++ library" width="250" height="60" src="../../asio.png"></td></tr></table> <hr> <div class="spirit-nav"> <a accesskey="p" href="networking/bsd_sockets.html"><img src="../../prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="../overview.html"><img src="../../up.png" alt="Up"></a><a accesskey="h" href="../../index.html"><img src="../../home.png" alt="Home"></a><a accesskey="n" href="serial_ports.html"><img src="../../next.png" alt="Next"></a> </div> <div class="section" lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"> <a name="asio.overview.timers"></a><a class="link" href="timers.html" title="Timers">Timers</a> </h3></div></div></div> <p> Long running I/O operations will often have a deadline by which they must have completed. These deadlines may be expressed as absolute times, but are often calculated relative to the current time. </p> <p> As a simple example, to perform a synchronous wait operation on a timer using a relative time one may write: </p> <pre class="programlisting"><span class="identifier">io_service</span> <span class="identifier">i</span><span class="special">;</span> <span class="special">...</span> <span class="identifier">deadline_timer</span> <span class="identifier">t</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">i</span><span class="special">);</span> <span class="identifier">t</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">expires_from_now</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">posix_time</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">seconds</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="number">5</span><span class="special">));</span> <span class="identifier">t</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">wait</span><span class="special">();</span> </pre> <p> More commonly, a program will perform an asynchronous wait operation on a timer: </p> <pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">void</span> <span class="identifier">handler</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">error_code</span> <span class="identifier">ec</span><span class="special">)</span> <span class="special">{</span> <span class="special">...</span> <span class="special">}</span> <span class="special">...</span> <span class="identifier">io_service</span> <span class="identifier">i</span><span class="special">;</span> <span class="special">...</span> <span class="identifier">deadline_timer</span> <span class="identifier">t</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">i</span><span class="special">);</span> <span class="identifier">t</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">expires_from_now</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">posix_time</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">milliseconds</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="number">400</span><span class="special">));</span> <span class="identifier">t</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">async_wait</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">handler</span><span class="special">);</span> <span class="special">...</span> <span class="identifier">i</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">run</span><span class="special">();</span> </pre> <p> The deadline associated with a timer may be also be obtained as a relative time: </p> <pre class="programlisting"><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">posix_time</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">time_duration</span> <span class="identifier">time_until_expiry</span> <span class="special">=</span> <span class="identifier">t</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">expires_from_now</span><span class="special">();</span> </pre> <p> or as an absolute time to allow composition of timers: </p> <pre class="programlisting"><span class="identifier">deadline_timer</span> <span class="identifier">t2</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">i</span><span class="special">);</span> <span class="identifier">t2</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">expires_at</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">t</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">expires_at</span><span class="special">()</span> <span class="special">+</span> <span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">posix_time</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">seconds</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="number">30</span><span class="special">));</span> </pre> <a name="asio.overview.timers.see_also"></a><h5> <a name="id630067"></a> <a class="link" href="timers.html#asio.overview.timers.see_also">See Also</a> </h5> <p> <a class="link" href="../reference/basic_deadline_timer.html" title="basic_deadline_timer">basic_deadline_timer</a>, <a class="link" href="../reference/deadline_timer.html" title="deadline_timer">deadline_timer</a>, <a class="link" href="../reference/deadline_timer_service.html" title="deadline_timer_service">deadline_timer_service</a>, <a class="link" href="../tutorial/tuttimer1.html" title="Timer.1 - Using a timer synchronously">timer tutorials</a>. </p> </div> <table xmlns:rev="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/tools/doc/revision" width="100%"><tr> <td align="left"></td> <td align="right"><div class="copyright-footer">Copyright © 2003 - 2010 Christopher M. 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