Noted effect of fork() and execve().

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Michael Kerrisk 2006-07-22 15:54:34 +00:00
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.BR ITIMER_VIRTUAL ,
or
.BR ITIMER_PROF .
.SH NOTES
A child created via
.BR fork (2)
does not inherit its parent's interval timers.
Interval timers are preserved across an
.BR execve (2).
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.4BSD (this call first appeared in 4.2BSD).
.SH "SEE ALSO"