Hi Stanislaw,

Thansk for your info.

On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 01:30:50PM +0200, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> Hi Dong Zhu
> 
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 06:10:19PM +0800, Dong Zhu wrote:
> > diff --git a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
> > index c7f31aa..cc03290 100644
> > --- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
> > +++ b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
> > @@ -1413,9 +1413,9 @@ static int posix_cpu_nsleep(const clockid_t 
> > which_clock, int flags,
> >     /*
> >      * Diagnose required errors first.
> >      */
> > -   if (CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD(which_clock) &&
> > -       (CPUCLOCK_PID(which_clock) == 0 ||
> > -        CPUCLOCK_PID(which_clock) == current->pid))
> > +   if (CPUCLOCK_PID(which_clock) == current->pid ||
> > +       (CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD(which_clock) &&
> > +        CPUCLOCK_PID(which_clock) == 0))
> >             return -EINVAL;
> 
> Nope, this is wrong. We have to allow own pid process clock, because it
> can be used correctly on multi-threaded processes. Own tid thread clock

Yes, you are right, I really neglected this point.

> has no sense and we correctly return -EINVAL in such case.

> 
> We could possibly add check for own pid together with check if process 
> consist of one thread, but that is too complicated IMHO especially
> taking into account that threads on the process can be destroyed and
> created dynamically.
> 

Agree, really so complicated.

-- 
Best Regards,
Dong Zhu
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