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Date:      Sun, 26 Feb 1995 21:39:50 -0500
From:      rjb@intac.com
To:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   FreeBSD 2.0; possible signal handling bug?
Message-ID:  <199502270239.VAA17932@nile.intac.com>

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I'm trying to port some timer code that I've used successfully on other,
similiar systems. The code involves the use of signals and alarms
that implement a timer mechanism that lets the caller specify fractional
amounts of time in seconds. The code calls this timer 10 times
before it exits. Under FreeBSD it gets to about the 8th call before
dying. It generates a floating point error of some kind that I can't
understand.

I've included an archive with this message that contains the code. After
editing this message, make a test directory for yourself and simply
uudecode, uncompress, untar and type 'make' for the following:



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