ITIMER_VIRTUAL running in child after fork()?

Volker Stolz stolz at i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Wed Jun 18 03:14:22 PDT 2003


The man page for fork() says:
"· All interval timers are cleared; see setitimer(2)."
So clearly ITIMER_VIRTUAL should be cleared as well, but a quick test
showed that a fork()ed child still has the VIRTUAL (& PROF) timer running.

Is this right?
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