From 8de811e83f03003f2409499fa7bfb8de0e0e5322 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:54:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Noted effect of fork() and execve().

---
 man2/getitimer.2 | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man2/getitimer.2 b/man2/getitimer.2
index 3b4f62330..9cd1daf6e 100644
--- a/man2/getitimer.2
+++ b/man2/getitimer.2
@@ -127,6 +127,12 @@ is not one of
 .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"