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[ale] SIGALRM
- Subject: [ale] SIGALRM
- From: jwl at atlanta.cray.com (James W. Lynch)
- Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 11:05:57 -0400
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> Why would a program catch signal 14 (SIGALRM)?
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> Thanks,
> Christopher Fowler
>From the alarm(2) man page of a non-linux machine,
DESCRIPTION
The alarm system call instructs the alarm clock of the calling process
to send the SIGALRM signal to the calling process after a specified
number of real-time seconds has elapsed; see signal(2).
Jim.
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