too many SIGALRM's in sc 6.1 (on SysVr2)

[Greg Woods]

I've been using SC quite successfully for some time (since v4.x) on
various flavours of Unix machines (including at least one of Xenix
III, Xenix V, BSD4.1, SunOS-3, SysVr2, and SysVr3) and have been quite
happy with it.

However, today, well into creating my new monthly budget, sc simply
exited, with my shell (csh) telling me "sc: Alarm clock".  Of course
nothing was saved, not even a core-dump.

Perhaps the problem stems from the curses library's use of alarm() in
getch().  (My problem occured on and NCR Tower 32/600 running
R01.03.02, and I've compiled sc as per SysVr2 and terminfo/curses.)
The only other possibility, which *should* be impossible in any case,
is that setting SIGALRM to time_out(), which would longjmp(wakeup)
before the jmp_buf is initialized, has caused problems.  Perhaps
SIGALRM should be set to SIG_IGN for terminfo/curses compatability.

One other possiblity (that I hope and pray is not true) is that the
kernel let a stray SIGALRM trough from a background process to the
rest of the process group (I run monthd).  This is too horrible to
think about, and highly unlikely!

I would appreciate hearing any suggestions, or such.
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						Greg A. Woods.

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