signal module question

[Thomas Wouters]

On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 02:21:41PM -0400, oliver wrote:

> I think two or more alarms can be installed, say, one alarm is fired up at
> 10 seconds interval, the other one 30 seconds interval. My question is can
> i use one handler to deal with both alarms? 

You cannot install more than one alarm. At least, not using standard UNIX
'alarm()' mechanisms, which the signal module is using. Setting a new alarm
erases the previous one.

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