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Cygwin ualarm() breaks Perl [WAS Re: Cygwin @ 13452 warnings]
- From: John Peacock <jpeacock at rowman dot com>
- To: "H.Merijn Brand" <h dot m dot brand at hccnet dot nl>
- Cc: Perl 5 Porters <perl5-porters at perl dot org>, CygWin Discussion <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 12:29:57 -0500
- Subject: Cygwin ualarm() breaks Perl [WAS Re: Cygwin @ 13452 warnings]
- References: <20011204134524.5ABD.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl>
"H.Merijn Brand" wrote:
>
> the ualarm is still fatal on 1.3.6-2. I've just removed the second argument in
>
I found the following entry in winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog:
2001-11-27 Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
* cygwin.din (ualarm): New export.
(ualarm): New function. From Alexandr V. Shutko.
It looks like the unistd.h header never got updated; here is a small patch to
/usr/include/sys/unistd.h which seems to fix the compiling:
--- unistd.h.old Thu Dec 6 12:17:06 2001
+++ unistd.h Thu Dec 6 12:19:06 2001
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
#if defined(__CYGWIN__) || defined(__rtems__)
int _EXFUN(getdtablesize, (void));
int _EXFUN(setdtablesize, (int));
-useconds_t _EXFUN(ualarm, (useconds_t __useconds));
+useconds_t _EXFUN(ualarm, (useconds_t __useconds, useconds_t __interval));
unsigned _EXFUN(usleep, (unsigned int __useconds));
int _EXFUN(ftruncate, (int __fd, off_t __length));
int _EXFUN(truncate, (const char *, off_t __length));
John
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