RE: alarm() not working as expected

1) what do you mean someone calling you with a signal?  

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 12:09 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: alarm() not working as expected

That's strange. I've never seen this happen. Do you have other software
running that might be sending you a SIGALRM signal?  Or another signal?

EINTR means that the API call was interrupted by a signal, but it isn't
necessarily the signal that alarm() generated.

The signal number that's received is passed as a parm to your signal
handler, you could try printing it out to see whether it's SIGALRM or
whether it's something else.

I can think of things you could try to work around the problem, but I
can't think of anything (aside from someone calling you with a signal)
that would cause the problem you're experiencing.