From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751386Ab1LHUSo (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2011 15:18:44 -0500 Received: from exprod7og102.obsmtp.com ([64.18.2.157]:41035 "EHLO exprod7og102.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750912Ab1LHUSn (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2011 15:18:43 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 542 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:18:41 EST Message-ID: <4EE11903.7060809@genband.com> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:07:31 -0600 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111108 Fedora/3.1.16-1.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar Subject: whatever happened to making setpriority POSIX-compliant? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Dec 2011 20:07:31.0969 (UTC) FILETIME=[04CE9F10:01CCB5E5] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-8.0.0.4160-6.500.1024-18546.003 X-TM-AS-Result: No--4.002100-5.000000-31 X-TM-AS-User-Approved-Sender: No X-TM-AS-User-Blocked-Sender: No Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Chris Friesen Software Developer GENBAND chris.friesen@genband.com www.genband.com