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Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 09:59:35 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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To: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@attbi.com>
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Subject: Re: [announce] [patch] batch/idle priority scheduling, SCHED_BATCH
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On 1 Jul 2002, Nicholas Miell wrote:

> > > This can be done in glibc.  linux/sched.h should not be used by
> > > userspace applications, glibc has the define in <bits/sched.h> which is
> > > included from <sched.h> - and <sched.h> is the file defined by Posix.
> > 
> > yes, this was my thinking too.
> 
> OK, I can understand that line of reasoning.
> 
> Keep in mind that someday, someone who is looking for the implementation
> of the SCHED_OTHER policy will be thoroughly confused by the kernel's
> complete lack of reference to SCHED_OTHER. And they'll be asking you for
> clarification.
> 
> Or, you could make some note in the source that SCHED_OTHER is
> SCHED_NORMAL and eliminate any source of confusion now.

okay, i did this.

and, to not confuse existing code that still happens to use the kernel
headers, i added the #define to the 2.4.19-pre10-ac2 backport of the O(1)
scheduler.

	Ingo

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