Subject: Re: Random error with SunAda

From: [email-masked] (Casper H.S. Dik)
Date: 25 Apr 1994 19:14:57 GMT

[email-masked] (Jim Wolfe) writes:

>We are running into a random error in running a Xwindows application
>developed using Screen Maching and SunAda on Solaris 2.3.  We will
>randomly get an 'alarm clock' error.  We can find no apparent pattern
>to its occurrence, although it does seem to be limited to screen
>transitions (i.e., moving from one screen to another).  No Ada
>exceptions are raised, the program just bombs with the alarm
>clock message.  Any help would be appreciated.

Looks like someone installing a signal handler with
signal() rather than with sigset or sigaction(preferred).

Casper