David Daney writes:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
> > For some bizarre reason we're setting SCHED_RR when we do
> > java::lang::Thread::setPriority (). I cannot begin to imagine why
> > anyone ever thought this might be a good idea.
> >
>
> IIRC the current implementation of Thread.setPriority(int) does not work
> on Linux with SCHED_OTHER. Perhaps it was an attempt to make it work.
>
> We have an ugly local hack that uses setpriority() but it does not work
> with NPTL.
Well, at least one kernel engineer seems to think that's what should
be done. I accept that it might not work, but there's notthing better
that will, so ...