From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2007-08-10T09:46:09+09:00
Subject: Re: priorities of newly-created threads

Hi,

At Thu, 9 Aug 2007 08:38:41 +0900,
David Flanagan wrote in [ruby-core:11876]:
> In Ruby 1.9, newly created threads start at priority 0.  I suspect that 
> this is a bug.

The current VM uses native threads.  On linux, the scheduling
policy is defaulted to SCHED_OTHER, and the priority is bound
on 0 in that case.  Therefore, it's rather the restriction of
the platform.

-- 
Nobu Nakada