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Time & Clocks · Section 2

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Signature

#include <unistd.h>

— alarm();

Description

Architecture mapping

ArchitectureNumberABIEntry point
x86 (i386)27i386sys_alarm
x64 (x86_64)37commonsys_alarm

Kernel history

Introduced in Linux —.

seccomp & containers

Docker default profile

Allowed

Podman default profile

Allowed

strace example

$ strace -e alarm <cmd>

Security & observability