[ale] SIGALRM

[Dave Ritchie]

Christopher Fowler wrote:
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> Why would a program catch signal 14 (SIGALRM)?
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> Christopher Fowler
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Because it is using the alarm(2) call to time some event....

-- Dave Ritchie
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