Hi, On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > The only expectation is that a process with a lower nice level gets more > time. Any other expectation is a bug. Yes, users are buggy, they expect a lot of stupid things... Is this really reason enough to break this? What exactly is the damage if setpriority() accepts a few more levels? bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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