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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Gernot Payer <gpayer@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Patch to disarm timers after an exec syscall
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:31:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050629183147.GG9153@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050629111500.61095514.akpm@osdl.org>

* Andrew Morton (akpm@osdl.org) wrote:
> Ouch.  What does 2.4.x do?

Does 2.4 even support realtime timers?

> It wouldn't surprise me if fixing this breaks _something_ out there.  We
> might have to remain non-POSIX-compliant for the rest of time.

But I agree, the fix is wrong as it at least breaks compliance with
itimers.

thanks,
-chris

  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-29 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-29 12:55 Patch to disarm timers after an exec syscall Gernot Payer
2005-06-29 18:15 ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-29 18:31   ` Chris Wright [this message]
2005-06-29 18:50   ` Roland McGrath
2005-06-30  8:34     ` Gernot Payer
2005-06-29 18:27 ` Chris Wright
2005-06-30  8:27   ` Gernot Payer

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