Please give me a programming example of setitimer ( unix function call) in C++

Hi,

    I am doing C++ programming in unix. I tried with unix funciton call setitimer. Please find my program snippet attached with this thread. If I remove the static keyword in the program, I'm getting following error.

setitimer.cpp: In member function `void MyClass::registertimer()':
setitimer.cpp:28: error: ISO C++ forbids taking the address of an unqualified or parenthesized non-static member function to form a pointer to member function.  Say `&MyClass::timerevent'
setitimer.cpp:28: error: cannot convert `void (MyClass::*)()' to `void (*)()' in initialization

Please tell me how to sort out this problem. The target of my program is to execute a function at each interval of setitimer.

Thanks,
Maha

#include <iostream.h>
#define INTERVAL  2
#include <signal.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
 
       struct itimerval tout_val;
class MyClass
{
    public :
       void settimer();
       void registertimer();
       static void timerevent(void);
    private :
};
 
void MyClass::settimer()
{
    tout_val.it_interval.tv_sec = 0;
    tout_val.it_interval.tv_usec = 0;
    tout_val.it_value.tv_sec = INTERVAL; /* set timer for "INTERVAL (10) seconds */
    tout_val.it_value.tv_usec = 0;
    setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, &tout_val,0);
}
 
void MyClass::registertimer()
{
    typedef void(*fp)(void);
    fp ptr = &timerevent;
    signal(SIGALRM,(void(*)(int))ptr); /* set the Alarm signal capture */
}
 
void MyClass::timerevent(void)
{
     cout<<"timer event"<<endl;
     setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, &tout_val,0);
    //setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, &tout_val,0);
}
int main()
{
    MyClass myclass;
    myclass.settimer();
    myclass.registertimer();
    while(1)
    {
    }
}

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