BUG: ualarm(0,0) not clearing ualarms

Tue Feb 14 18:10:00 GMT 2006

Robb, Sam wrote:
>>> From: "Robb, Sam"
>>> I'm able to reproduce this on my machine, but only when I'm
>>> running it under rxvt. If I run it from cmd.exe or within a
>>> standard cygwin bash shell, then it completes without the
>>> '-- BOGUS ALARM --' warnings.
>>>>>> $ uname -a
>>> CYGWIN_NT-5.0 claus 1.5.19(0.150/4/2) 2006年01月20日 13:28 i686 Cygwin
>>>>>> $ gcc -o ua-test ua-test.c 
>>>>>> $ ./ua-test.exe 
>>> First ualarm - one shot
>>> Second ualarm - one shot
>>> Last ualarm - repeats 3 times
>>> Clearing ualarm
>>> Sleeping
>>> --- BOGUS ALARM ---
>>> --- BOGUS ALARM ---
>>> Done
>>>>> I'm the original poster of this bug report.
>> I usually run in an rxvt window, which is where I see the bug.
>> I tried a dos window, and the bug did not occur.
>> Further, it occurs on my Win2K box, but not on my WinXP box.
>>>> Jerry,
>> I've cc'd the cygwin list on this reply since the difference
> (Win2K vs. WinXP) may be significant. I'm also running cygwin
> under Win2K. It may be that others who have not seen this
> error are also running under XP as well.
>> -Samrobb
>my system is XP/SP2.
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