[ale] SIGALRM

[James W. Lynch]

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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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