From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31005 invoked by alias); 5 Jan 2007 01:16:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 30994 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Jan 2007 01:16:28 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from canyonero.dot.net.au (HELO canyonero.dot.net.au) (202.147.68.14) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:16:20 +0000 Received: from [203.129.51.196] (helo=[203.129.51.196]) by canyonero.dot.net.au with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1H2dgp-00076x-00; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:16:11 +1100 Message-ID: <459DA6D9.7070600@homemail.com.au> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:16:00 -0000 From: Ross Johnson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061008) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefan.Pusl@comneon.com CC: pthreads-win32@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Supported scheduling policies? References: <795528E59064E1439DF52D15EE769D5602E24B8A@mucse306.eu.infineon.com> In-Reply-To: <795528E59064E1439DF52D15EE769D5602E24B8A@mucse306.eu.infineon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact pthreads-win32-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: pthreads-win32-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007/txt/msg00001.txt.bz2 Stefan.Pusl@comneon.com wrote: > Hello, > > I have noticed from the comformance list, that the only supported > scheduling policy is SCHED_OTHER. Is there any action ongoing to support > the scheduling policy SCHED_FIFO? > Pthreads-win32 threads are just Windows threads and Win32 only has one scheduling policy that most appropriately corresponds to SCHED_OTHER. This assumes that Win32 can't somehow be made to emulate the POSIX required details of SCHED_FIFO, and that we can't just pretend to accept it for source code compatibility. Ross