On Sat, 13 May 2000, Robert de Vries wrote:
> Hi Linus,
>
> Please accept this patch for inclusion. The impact on the kernel is
> negligible and it makes the kernel a bit more POSIX feature complete. I
> have received good feedback from people who have used the patch and I have
> used it a lot myself without any problems.
>
Hi,
posix_timer_fn() in kernel/itimer.c is a timer handler, which runs in bottom half
context. It calls timer_notify_task() which uses the send_sig_info() function.
send_sig_info uses the "current" pointer to check for permissions.
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