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1.1     ! root        1: .TH ALARM 3C  "18 July 1983"
        !             2: .SH NAME
        !             3: alarm \- schedule signal after specified time
        !             4: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             5: .nf
        !             6: .B alarm(seconds)
        !             7: .B unsigned seconds;
        !             8: .fi
        !             9: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            10: .ft B
        !            11: This interface is obsoleted by setitimer(2).
        !            12: .ft R
        !            13: .PP
        !            14: .I Alarm
        !            15: causes signal SIGALRM, see
        !            16: .IR signal (3C),
        !            17: to be sent to the invoking process
        !            18: in a number of seconds given by the argument.
        !            19: Unless caught or ignored, the signal terminates the process.
        !            20: .PP
        !            21: Alarm requests are not stacked; successive calls reset the alarm clock.
        !            22: If the argument is 0, any alarm request is canceled.
        !            23: Because of scheduling delays,
        !            24: resumption of execution of when the signal is
        !            25: caught may be delayed an arbitrary amount.
        !            26: The longest specifiable delay time is 2147483647 seconds.
        !            27: .PP
        !            28: The return value is the amount of time previously remaining in the alarm clock.
        !            29: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            30: sigpause(2), sigvec(2), signal(3C), sleep(3)

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