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From: Volker Stolz <stolz@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: ITIMER_VIRTUAL running in child after fork()?
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The man page for fork() says:
"· All interval timers are cleared; see setitimer(2)."
So clearly ITIMER_VIRTUAL should be cleared as well, but a quick test
showed that a fork()ed child still has the VIRTUAL (& PROF) timer running.

Is this right?
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