From: Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@...4x.org>
Date: 2007-08-10T15:28:44+09:00
Subject: Re: priorities of newly-created threads

On Friday 10 August 2007, Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
> 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.

Would it be possible to have access to the scheduling class of the 
threads ? It is a must-have IMO. The problem, of course, being that it is 
highly platform-specific.

Sylvain