Date:        Thu, 10 Aug 2000 11:09:01 +0200
    From:        Olaf Seibert <rhialto@polderland.nl>
    Message-ID:  <20000810110901.A2475@polderland.nl>

  | Which is it?

Tradition has always been that timers are inherited through both
fork() and exec() - from back when the only timer was that set by alarm()
(ie: from 7th edition days).

That allows a process to set timers to kill another process if it consumes
too much time (and doesn't arrange to catch the signal).

kre