Re: Incorrect behavior of timer_settime() for absolute dates inthe past

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 10:11 +0100, John wrote:
> value specified by the it_value member of value. If the specified time 
> has already passed, the function shall succeed and the expiration 
> notification shall be made."

That's exactly what the implementation does:

The functions succeeds (return value is 0) and then the notification is
made. There is _NO_ requirement that the signal is delivered before the
function returns to user space. I could be implemented, but I'm not sure
if it is worth the effort.

	tglx





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