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On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> yes, an ELF flag might work, or my suggestion to allow applications to
> increase their priority (up until a certain degree).

An ELF flag might be better, as it's declarative -- it allows the kernel
to implement 'interactivity' in various ways, so we can keep tweeking it.
Priority might prove to be a bit different than interactivity, so we
better not overload the two just yet.

-- 
Dimi.

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