standards/53554 fix for review (Re: interval timers not cleared in fork())

Volker Stolz stolz at i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Mon Jun 23 02:00:30 PDT 2003


The following reply was made to PR standards/53554; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Volker Stolz <stolz at i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
To: Wartan Hachaturow <wart at tepkom.ru>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org, standards at freebsd.org,
	rwatson at freebsd.org, simonmar at microsoft.com
Subject: Re: standards/53554 fix for review (Re: interval timers not cleared in fork())
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:49:23 +0200

 On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 08:34:49PM +0400, Wartan Hachaturow wrote:
 > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 04:21:42PM +0200, Volker Stolz wrote:
 > 
 > > SUSv2 says that on invoking fork():
 > >  - If the Timers option is supported, per-process timers created by the
 > >     parent are not inherited by the child process.
 > 
 > SUSv3 requires this as well.
 > This is a quick fix (for 5.1, it's also affected):
 
 The patch applies fine to -STABLE and has the desired effect:
 
 virtual set: 1 500
 real get: 0 0
 prof get: 0 0
 virtual get: 0 0
 
 Thanks for looking into this!
   Volker
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