Re: [PATCH] libgst: Fix SIGALRM race and cancel a timer before starting a new one

Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.gnu.general
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Il 26/09/2014 20:26, Holger Hans Peter Freyther ha scritto:
> do you know that posix make any guarantee that either the signal of
> the previous timer has been delivered or the old timer has been
> canceled?

Yes, definitely.  The old timer must be delivered before
timer_settime/setitimer returns.

Paolo

> For clock monotinic I did find common_timer_set inide the kernel
> and it seems that it tries to prevent such thing?
> 
> 
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