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From: Orion Poplawski <orion@cora.nwra.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] [hrtimers] Fix oldvalue return in setitimer
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:56:02 -0700
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Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> This resolves bugzilla bug#5617. The oldvalue of the
> timer was read after the timer was cancelled, so the
> remaining time was always zero.
> 

I'm seeing this problem on recent Fedore development kernels.
Interestingly, it causes the IDL 7 minute timed demo to exit immediately
upon trying to plot since it resets the timer and expects the old value
to be returned.

- - Orion
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