[fpc-devel]SIGALRM?

[Marco van de Voort]

> fd_Set(0,fdsin);
> InputPending:=(Select(1, at fdsin,nil,nil,nil)>0);
> end;
>  
> Procedure Delay(DTime: Word);
> Begin
>     Select(0,nil,nil,nil,DTime);
> End;                                                                          
>     
> 
> The program works right, but there is a problem. Randomly, some time after 
> the program is running, it receives a SIGALRM from the system and it ends. I 
> solved it by trapping this signal, but... anybody knows why it signal is 
> generated?

I'm no guru, but do you sometimes don't call inputpending for a while, or
read from stdin? 

Then maybe some internal buffer could overflow if people are still typing?