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From: mark@DRD.Com (Mark Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: SIGALRM signal handling and ualarm(3)
Keywords: SIGALRM ualarm signal blocking.
Message-ID: <1990Jan11.222741.13427@DRD.Com>
Date: 11 Jan 90 22:27:41 GMT
Reply-To: mark@drd.Com (Mark Lawrence)
Organization: DRD Corporation, Tulsa, OK
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I've got a program that declares a signal handler for signals of type
SIGALRM.  I do a 
    ualarm(value,ONCE);
While in the signal handler, are further signals of type SIGALRM
blocked, i.e. if ONCE were SomeInterval, what happens when another
SIGALRM fires while I happen to be executing out of the signal handler
from a previous one?  Do I need to explicitly block them?

Oh yeah, SunOS 4.0.3 (which  may or may not be important...)
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