From: utzoo!decvax!genradbo!stuart Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: sleep(3) interference with sigset(3) Article-I.D.: genradbo.457 Posted: Fri Aug 13 17:25:47 1982 Received: Tue Aug 17 06:26:19 1982 Sleep(3) uses the alarm signal and claims to restore the state of the the signal. I use a sleep inside my routine which handles the alarm signal. But, can anyone explain why sleep(2) might not fully restore the alarm to the way things were before? Both the remaining alarm time and the 'current' handler routine are available to sleep(2) if it wants to look at them.