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Chris Friesen wrote:
> Really?  You can call pthread_attr_setschedpolicy() with a policy of
> SCHED_MM?  On my copy of glibc 2.8 it explicitly checks for
> FIFO/RR/OTHER and anything else is rejected.

My copy of 2.9 has that fixed (original one is still broken), because
that's also broken for SCHED_IDLE and SCHED_BATCH which have been in the
kernel for a while already.

I'm not sure, but I think pthread_setschedparam() and
sched_setscheduler() didn't need fixing.


	- Jussi