From: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
To: Aniruddha M Marathe <aniruddha.marathe@wipro.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Chandrashekhar RS <chandra.smurthy@wipro.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] problem with timer_create(2) for SIGEV_NONE ??
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 16:35:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EB6F546.6010802@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E935C89216CC5D4AB77D89B253ADED2A92257F@blr-m2-msg.wipro.com>
Aniruddha M Marathe wrote:
> George,
>
> timer_create(2) fails in the case where sigev_notify parameter of
> sigevent structure is SIGEV_NONE. I believe this should not happen.
>
~snip~
>
> Line 377:
> SIGEV_NONE & ~(SIGEV_SIGNAL | SIGEV_THREAD_ID)
> = 001 & ~(000 | 100)
> = 001 & ~(100)
> = 001 & 011
> = 001
> therefore the if condition is true
> therefore the function returns NULL from line 378.
>
> Now in sys_timer_create() at line number 462
> Process = NULL
>
> Now at line 489
> if (!process) becomes TRUE
> and function returns with EINVAL
>
> Is my analysis right? If so can you comment on this behaviour?
>
Looks like a bug :( I feel a patch coming on...
--
George Anzinger george@mvista.com
High-res-timers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
Preemption patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-05 23:23 UTC|newest]
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2003-05-05 13:13 [BUG] problem with timer_create(2) for SIGEV_NONE ?? Aniruddha M Marathe
2003-05-05 23:35 ` george anzinger [this message]
2003-05-07 15:21 ` george anzinger
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