Mono.Unix.Native.Syscall.alarm Method
If the call completes successfully, the taks will receive a SIGALARM signal after a delay of seconds seconds. A delay of zero seconds simply cancel the alarm. If an previous alarm was activated when the call is made then the previous alarm is cancelled.

Syntax

public static uint alarm (uint seconds)

Parameters

seconds
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Returns

If a previous alarm was activated, the call returns the time delay before the expiration of that previous alarm (now canceled). Otherwise, it returns zero.

Remarks

Requirements

Namespace: Mono.Unix.Native
Assembly: Mono.Posix (in Mono.Posix.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0, 4.0.0.0