Bug 142789 - ITIMER_REAL should be per-process, not per thread
Summary: ITIMER_REAL should be per-process, not per thread
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Roland McGrath
QA Contact: Brian Brock
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: FC4Target
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-12-14 04:06 UTC by Roland McGrath
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: FC4
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2005-08-09 07:00:17 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:

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patch posted upstream (8.28 KB, patch)
2004-12-14 04:06 UTC, Roland McGrath 		no flags Details | Diff
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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. 

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


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
  
Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

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.
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