Bug 142789

Summary: ITIMER_REAL should be per-process, not per thread
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Roland McGrath <roland>
Component: kernelAssignee: Roland McGrath <roland>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Roland McGrath 2004-12-14 04:06:44 UTC 
*** This bug has been split off bug 118044 ***

Description of problem:
setitimer operates on individual threads, even under NPTL.
POSIX says it should be process-wide. 

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How reproducible:
Easily seen in a MT program

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Call setitimer in one thread
2.Exit the thread
3.Process never gets the ALRMs
  
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Tracking bug for upstream work, patches on the way.
Comment 1 Roland McGrath 2004-12-14 04:06:44 UTC 
Created attachment 108490 [details]
patch posted upstream
Comment 2 Roland McGrath 2005-03-13 04:16:43 UTC 
My changes are in Linus's tree now, hopefully in 2.6.12
Comment 3 Roland McGrath 2005-04-24 01:13:07 UTC 
Rawhide 2.6.12rcN kernels have this.
Comment 4 Roland McGrath 2005-08-09 07:00:17 UTC 
All good in FC4.