From terry.grieb@intel.com

This is a bug report for perl from Terry.Grieb@​intel.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.8.2.

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The following small example shows that the alarm never happens on Windows perl 5.8.x.
Either a sleep of an input from <STDIN> will show the problem.

  $SIG{ALRM} = sub
  {
  die;
  };

  print "Note alarm does not stop sleep (or input) - It never fires!\n";
  print "Alarm should fire in 2 secs\n";

  alarm( 2 );
  sleep 10;
  print "Sleep ended without alarm.\n";

  exit( 0 );

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Flags​:
category=core
severity=high
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Site configuration information for perl v5.8.2​:

Configured by ActiveState at Tue Dec 9 10​:19​:27 2003.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 2) configuration​:
Platform​:
osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
uname=''
config_args='undef'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define
useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler​:
cc='cl', ccflags ='-nologo -Gf -W3 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX',
optimize='-MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1',
cppflags='-DWIN32'
ccversion='', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=10
ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='__int64', lseeksize=8
alignbytes=8, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries​:
ld='link', ldflags ='-nologo -nodefaultlib -debug -opt​:ref,icf -libpath​:"C​:\Perl\lib\CORE" -machine​:x86'
libpth=C​:\PROGRA1\MICROS3\VC98\lib
libs= oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib netapi32.lib uuid.lib wsock32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msvcrt.lib
perllibs= oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib netapi32.lib uuid.lib wsock32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msvcrt.lib
libc=msvcrt.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=yes, libperl=perl58.lib
gnulibc_version='undef'
Dynamic Linking​:
dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -debug -opt​:ref,icf -libpath​:"C​:\Perl\lib\CORE" -machine​:x86'

Locally applied patches​:
ACTIVEPERL_LOCAL_PATCHES_ENTRY
21846 Configure gets d_u32align wrong
21739 [perl #24493] install.html not working
21737 Ooops. left an XXX comment in, and worse still it's a // comment
21735 utf8 keys now work for tied hashes
21734 Accessing unicode keys in tie hashes via hv_exists was broken
21733 ext/threads/t/problem.t
21732 Config​::myconfig() fails under ithreads
21728 Update perlhist with 5.6.2
21723 Include 'SCCS' in the list of dir names ignored by installperl
21718 Empty subroutine as object method segfaults in 5.8.2 (sometimes)
21714 Fix bug #24380​: assigning list with duplicated keys to a hash
21706 [perl #24460] [DOC PATCH] the begincheck program
21693 must copy changes from win32/makeifle.mk to wince/makefile.ce>
21691 Update the list of pumpkings in perlhist.pod
21687 [PATCH 5.6.2-RC1 pod/perlhist.pod] Updated
21677 OS/2 docu
21676 Bug #24407​: key for shared hash got stringified into wrong pool
21673 Be sure to use -fPIC not -fpic on Linux/SPARC
21672 extending the hash attack test
21671 Benchmark.pm cmpthese segfault
21662 'make minitest' fails for op/cproto and op/pat
21586 Comment that this 'optimisation' is actually a necessary fixup
21548 Sync with Pod​::Perldoc 3.12
21540 Fix backward-compatibility issues in if.pm

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@​INC for perl v5.8.2​:
C​:/Perl/lib
C​:/Perl/site/lib
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Environment for perl v5.8.2​:
HOME=C​:\grieb
LANG (unset)
LANGUAGE (unset)
LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
LOGDIR (unset)
PATH=C​:\perl\bin;C​:\bin;C​:\bin\X11;C​:\mksnt;C​:\WINDOWS\system32;C​:\WINDOWS;C​:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;c​:\ntlocal;c​:\local;C​:\office2k\Office;C​:\w2kResKit;C​:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools\WinNT;C​:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin;C​:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools;C​:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\bin;c​:\grieb\bin;c​:\emacs\bin;c​:\cmplr\bin;c​:\netbatch\bin;c​:\w2kreskit
PERL_BADLANG (unset)
SHELL=C​:/mksnt/sh.exe

From terry.grieb@intel.com

More info - This bug appears to only reproduce on Windows 2003. i.e. It
works fine on Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

sigh ...

  Tg