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Re: ualarm() does not conform to

From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>
To: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, newlib at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:36:43 +0100
Subject: Re: ualarm() does not conform to
References: <8D00C32549556B4E977F81DBC24E985D4100E1@crtsmail1.technol_exch.corp.riotinto.org>

On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 12:51:14PM -0000, Billinghurst, David (CRTS) wrote:
> Cygwin has recently acquired the ualarm function.  The function is declared
> in <sys/unistd.h> as
>  
> useconds_t _EXFUN(ualarm, (useconds_t __useconds));
> 
> This doesn't match the The Single UNIX Specification Version 2 at
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/ualarm.html, which wants
> 
> useconds_t ualarm(useconds_t useconds, useconds_t interval);

The latest newlib contains the correct definition.  It has been
corrected by John Peacock 4 days ago.

Corinna

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