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Subject:	Re: Problem with alarm() not functioning twice in one program.
Date:	Tue, 8 Feb 2005 20:48:35 -0000
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Brian Ford wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Max Bowsher wrote:
>
>> The following program produces the output:
>>
>> Begin
>> Done
>> Begin
>> ...and then hangs.
>>
>> Can anyone help me understand why?
>>
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-10/msg00598.html

Ah, OK.

So are you saying "SIGALRM has been entered, but has not returned, so the 
signal handling code won't try to enter it again" ?

That makes sense, I'll see if I can get the problem piece of code fixed.

Max.


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