Re: [patch] fix alarm() return value

On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 09:57 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi folks,
> 
> This patch fixes the alarm() system call return value.  The alarm(2)
> syscall is supposed to return the reamining seconds.  The hrtimer
> switchover broke this because the code tries to gather the remaining
> time _after_ canceling the timer.  Trivial fix below.

Thanks. The fix is already in -mm and scheduled to go into 2.6.16

	tglx




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