On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:18:33AM +0200, Roberto Bagnara wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:00:33PM +0200, Roberto Bagnara wrote: >>> the following shows a problem in Cygwin 1.7 that is not present in >>> Cygwin 1.5: >>> >>> [snip] >>> >>> As you see, the alarm() function is not invoked as it should (and as it >>> is in Cygwin 1.5). >> It was invoked ony by coincidence in 1.5. It should be fixed in >> the next snapshot. >> Thanks for the test case. > > Dear Christopher, > > Abramo Bagnara and myself have independently downloaded > http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin-inst-20081007.tar.bz2, unpacked it > over the root directory of two separate cygwin-1.7 installations, > recompiled the testcase, launched it, and alarm() is still not called. > > Perhaps http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin-inst-20081007.tar.bz2 > is not what you meant by "the next snapshot"?
I was not being mysterious. This works fine for me on two different systems, one running XP, one running Vista. You need to provide more details, a la: http://cygwin.com/problems.html . cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
