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* whatever happened to making setpriority POSIX-compliant?
@ 2011-12-08 20:07 Chris Friesen
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From: Chris Friesen @ 2011-12-08 20:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar


Back in 2008 there was a patch proposed to make setpriority() apply to 
processes as a whole:

[PATCH] make setpriority POSIX compliant; introduce PRIO_THREAD extension.

Ulrich agreed to it in theory, Christoph Hellwig proposed a way to make 
it backwards-compatible, and then nothing happened.

Is this something that we'd ever want to fix up, or is the current 
behaviour good enough?

Chris

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Chris Friesen
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