From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Signal & setitimer
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 22:38:32 +0100
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

> On Sun, 7 May 2000, Jason Green wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure exactly what the expected behaviour of this program
> > *should* be (can someone clarify this) but the actual behaviour is
> > definitely not consistent.
> 
> What you report *is* reproducible.  The small patch I posted should
> fix it; please try that.

I patched itimer.c and it fixes the problem when run normally in a DOS
box.  It is too difficult to tell if general protection exception
problem still exists because this was rare anyway.

The other reported results of the test program remain - immediate exit
when run with redir, and unusual behaviour when run from UltraEdit.