Hi,

I am writing a timer class that I want to be able to get to notify me
(via a callback func), when a specified interval has elapsed. I have
most of the timer functionality figured - however, I need to spawn a new
thread to carry out the "time watch" - and I need to do this in a cross
platform (Well Linux/Windows) way ...

Any help will be much appreciated. The code (snippet) follows below:

#include <ctime>

typedef void (*TIMER_CB_FUNC)( void ) ;

class Timer {
public:
    inline Timer():m_cbfunc(0),m_interval(0),m_stime(0){} ;
    Timer( TIMER_CB_FUNC, unsigned short) ;
    Timer( const Timer&) ;
    Timer& operator= (const Timer& ) ;
    virtual ~Timer() ; //not really required

private:
    TIMER_CB_FUNC    m_cbfunc ;
    unsigned short    m_interval ;
    time_t        m_stime ;

    /* private functions */
    void reset( void );
};

Basically when the Timer class is constructed, it must start a new
thread that waits till the time is up and then notifies me. MTIA