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Re: possible bug in freebsd alarm()
Hi Bernard. Thanks for your bug report. This was a bug in the clock driver
that I fixed about a month ago. With any luck, we will have a new snapshot
of the source code ready to send out later this week with all kinds of
goodies.
Lbs
> From: Bernard Cassagne <Bernard.Cassagne@imag.fr>
> Subject: possible bug in freebsd alarm()
>
> I am porting a freebsd program to oskit. This program does
> alarm(5);
> recvfrom(...)
> alarm(0);
>
> The freebsd manual says :
> The request alarm(0) voids the current alarm and the signal SIGALRM
> will not be delivered.
>
> But the program does not work because alarm(0) does not cancel the current
> alarm.