Re: [PATCH 4/7] make ITIMER_REAL per-process

[Adam Heath]

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.
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