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in reply to Re^4: alarm not triggering SIGALRM on Windows 2003
in thread alarm not triggering SIGALRM on Windows 2003

Yeah that was just a hunch I had since I knew alarm() was relatively recently implemented in windows. It looks like you are correct and it just plain does not work correctly on Windows 2003 Server.