setitimer() and fork()

I'm having a problem when I try to profile a program that fork()'s. The problem is that it does count how many times I'm in a function, but nothing seems to use any cpu time at all.

If I call setitmer(ITIMER_PROF, ...) again after the fork, it works as expected. fork() doesn't seem to copy the timer(s). On other OS's, I don't seem to have to do this.

I'm having this problem with both 2.2, and 2.4. I think it used to work in older versions.

Is this a bug, or is this intentional?

Kurt

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