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The short sleep bug (up to 1 jiffy) that was newly noted in 

man-pages-2.04 has just been fixed in 2.6.12.
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Michael Kerrisk 2005-06-23 07:16:55 +00:00
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man2/getitimer.2
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@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ struct timeval {
.PD
.LP
The function
.B getitimer
.BR getitimer ()
fills the structure indicated by
.I value
with the current setting for the timer indicated by
@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ is disabled. Similarly,
.I it_interval
is set to the reset value.
The function
.B setitimer
.BR setitimer ()
sets the indicated timer to the value in
.IR value .
If
@ -162,13 +162,13 @@ On Linux 2.6 on x86 (where a jiffy is 0.001 seconds),
this means that the ceiling value for a timer is
approximately 24.86 days.
On certain systems (including x86), the Linux kernel has a bug which will
produce premature timer expirations of up to one jiffy under some
circumstances.
.\" As at June 2005, the above holds in 2.4.x and 2.6.x (e.g., 2.6.12.)
On certain systems (including x86),
Linux kernels before version 2.6.12 have a bug which will produce
premature timer expirations of up to one jiffy under some circumstances.
This bug is fixed in kernel 2.6.12.
POSIX.1 says that
.B setitimer
.BR setitimer ()
should fail if a
.I tv_usec
value is specified that is outside of the range 0 to 999999.