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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Cc: linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] fix alarm() return value
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:07:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1138612062.15232.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43DDD503.3060008@suse.de>

On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 09:57 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi folks,
> 
> This patch fixes the alarm() system call return value.  The alarm(2)
> syscall is supposed to return the reamining seconds.  The hrtimer
> switchover broke this because the code tries to gather the remaining
> time _after_ canceling the timer.  Trivial fix below.

Thanks. The fix is already in -mm and scheduled to go into 2.6.16

	tglx





      reply	other threads:[~2006-01-30  9:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-30  8:57 Gerd Hoffmann
2006-01-30  9:07 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]

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