Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Dec 2004 23:25:44 -0600 (CST) | From | Adam Heath <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/7] make ITIMER_REAL per-process |
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On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > POSIX requires that setitimer, getitimer, and alarm work on a per-process > basis. Currently, Linux implements these for individual threads. This > patch fixes these semantics for the ITIMER_REAL timer (which generates > SIGALRM), making it shared by all threads in a process (thread group).
Hrm. This could be useful for gprof. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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