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-.TH UALARM 3 2010-09-20 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH UALARM 3 2013-04-18 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
ualarm \- schedule signal after given number of microseconds
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BR ualarm ().
4.3BSD, SUSv2, and POSIX do not define any errors.
.SH NOTES
+POSIX.1-2001 does not specify what happens if the
+.I usecs
+argument is 0.
+.\" This case is not documented in HP-US, Solar, FreeBSD, NetBSD, or OpenBSD!
+On Linux (and probably most other systems),
+the effect is to cancel any pending alarm.
+
The type
.I useconds_t
is an unsigned integer type capable of holding integers