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Subject: Re: exporting task_nice in O(1)-sched
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
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On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 11:27, J.A. Magallon wrote:
 
> Found this building bproc. New O(1) scheduler kills the nice field in
> task struct. It gives a way to fix the niceness (set_user_nice()), but
> the funtion to _query_ is not exported. Any particular reason ?

Probably because Ingo intended to hide as many interfaces to the
scheduler as possible and only export those symbols that were needed.

It is safe to export if it is needed.

	Robert Love

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