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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:31:47 -0700
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
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* 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