From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: John <me@privacy.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, johnstul@us.ibm.com,
akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Incorrect behavior of timer_settime() for absolute dates in the past
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:26:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1164893161.6242.4.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <455D7CDD.9000202@privacy.net>
On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 10:11 +0100, John wrote:
> value specified by the it_value member of value. If the specified time
> has already passed, the function shall succeed and the expiration
> notification shall be made."
That's exactly what the implementation does:
The functions succeeds (return value is 0) and then the notification is
made. There is _NO_ requirement that the signal is delivered before the
function returns to user space. I could be implemented, but I'm not sure
if it is worth the effort.
tglx
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-30 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-17 9:11 Incorrect behavior of timer_settime() for absolute dates in the past John
2006-11-27 14:32 ` John
2006-11-28 2:09 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-30 13:26 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
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