in reply to More than one alarm-call at a time
Once upon a time I had a similar requirement. My implementation was kinda ugly, but it worked.
What I did was spawn a child which did the alarm work. When it's alarm call timed out it sent a SIGUSRx signal to the parent. In a spool directory I had files that were used as a primitive IPC method that indicated what the signal was for.
TIMTOWTDI though...
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