Bug 142790

Summary: setitimer CPU timers 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 04:09:32 UTC 
See also bug 142789

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

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.9


Tracking bug for upstream work.
Comment 1 Roland McGrath 2004-12-14 04:09:32 UTC 
Created attachment 108491 [details]
patch posted upstream
Comment 2 Roland McGrath 2005-03-13 04:15:51 UTC 
My changes are in Linus's tree now, hopefully in 2.6.12
Comment 3 Roland McGrath 2005-04-24 01:09:41 UTC 
Rawhide 2.6.12rcN kernels include this.
Comment 4 Roland McGrath 2005-08-09 07:01:42 UTC 
All good in FC4.