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Date:	Thu, 06 Dec 2001 12:29:57 -0500
From:	John Peacock <jpeacock AT rowman DOT com>
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To:	"H.Merijn Brand" <h DOT m DOT brand AT hccnet DOT nl>
CC:	Perl 5 Porters <perl5-porters AT perl DOT org>,
	CygWin Discussion <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Cygwin ualarm() breaks Perl [WAS Re: Cygwin @ 13452 warnings]
References:	<20011204134524 DOT 5ABD DOT H DOT M DOT BRAND AT hccnet DOT nl>

"H.Merijn Brand" wrote:
> 
> the ualarm is still fatal on 1.3.6-2. I've just removed the second argument in
> 

I found the following entry in winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog:

 2001-11-27  Christopher Faylor  <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
 
         * cygwin.din (ualarm): New export.
         (ualarm): New function.  From Alexandr V. Shutko.

It looks like the unistd.h header never got updated; here is a small patch to
/usr/include/sys/unistd.h which seems to fix the compiling:

--- unistd.h.old        Thu Dec  6 12:17:06 2001
+++ unistd.h    Thu Dec  6 12:19:06 2001
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
 #if defined(__CYGWIN__) || defined(__rtems__)
 int    _EXFUN(getdtablesize, (void));
 int    _EXFUN(setdtablesize, (int));
-useconds_t _EXFUN(ualarm, (useconds_t __useconds));
+useconds_t _EXFUN(ualarm, (useconds_t __useconds, useconds_t __interval));
 unsigned _EXFUN(usleep, (unsigned int __useconds));
 int     _EXFUN(ftruncate, (int __fd, off_t __length));
 int     _EXFUN(truncate, (const char *, off_t __length));

John

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