Re: [announce] [patch] batch/idle priority scheduling, SCHED_BATCH

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>]

Nicholas Miell <nmiell@attbi.com> writes:

> On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 17:26, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
>> -#define SCHED_OTHER		0
>> +#define SCHED_NORMAL		0
>
>>From IEEE 1003.1-2001 / Open Group Base Spec. Issue 6:
> "Conforming implementations shall include one scheduling policy
> identified as SCHED_OTHER (which may execute identically with either the
> FIFO or round robin scheduling policy)."
>
> So, you probably want to add a "#define SCHED_OTHER SCHED_NORMAL" here
> in order to prevent future confusion, especially because the user-space
> headers have SCHED_OTHER, but no SCHED_NORMAL.

This can be done in glibc.  linux/sched.h should not be used by
userspace applications, glibc has the define in <bits/sched.h> which
is included from <sched.h> - and <sched.h> is the file defined by
Posix.

Andreas
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