[hurd,commited] hurd: Make setitimer clear interval on value being 0

Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:26:59 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.hurd.cvs,gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha
Message-ID <[email protected]>
posix says value being 0 means disabling a timer, regardless of the
interval, so we should clear the interval in that case, so a further
setitimer call does not see a non-zero interval.
---
 sysdeps/mach/hurd/setitimer.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sysdeps/mach/hurd/setitimer.c b/sysdeps/mach/hurd/setitimer.c
index 265576e00e..d0bca89157 100644
--- a/sysdeps/mach/hurd/setitimer.c
+++ b/sysdeps/mach/hurd/setitimer.c
@@ -271,7 +271,10 @@ setitimer_locked (const struct itimerval *new, struct itimerval *old)
     }
 
   /* Load the new itimer value.  */
-  _hurd_itimerval = newval;
+  if ((newval.it_value.tv_sec | newval.it_value.tv_usec) != 0)
+    _hurd_itimerval = newval;
+  else
+    _hurd_itimerval = (struct itimerval) { };
 
   if ((newval.it_value.tv_sec | newval.it_value.tv_usec) == 0)
     {
-- 
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