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From: Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: [OT] alarm() question
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> Why does the alarm go off but not interrupt the system call?  bzzt() is
> executed, but the program doesn't print Done and exit for a minute plus.
> 
> Pointers to FM to RT welcome.

The system call is being interrupted, it just gets restarted right away by
default. See Steven's "UNIX Network Programming" for a means of avoiding
this behavior.

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