On Sat, 19 Jun 2021 17:15:43 +0200, Alexander Bluhm wrote:

> In regress is some code
>     if ((int)alarm(10) == -1)
> or
>     if (alarm(30) == (unsigned int)-1)
>
> The man page alarm(3) says "If an error occurs, the value -1 is
> returned".  Such things could be written.
>
> Should we avoid to return UINT_MAX in cases if there was no error?
> Can that happen now?
>
> Or should we just remove the error handling in regress?

You should remove the error handling in regress.

 - todd

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