From: Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@...4x.org>
Date: 2007-08-10T15:31:42+09:00
Subject: Re: priorities of newly-created threads

On Friday 10 August 2007, David Flanagan wrote:
> More specifically, this is the patch to thread_create_core I propose.
>
> 	David
>
> --- thread.c~   2007-07-24 23:30:39.000000000 -0700
> +++ thread.c    2007-08-09 22:11:46.000000000 -0700
> @@ -350,6 +350,8 @@
>       th->first_func = fn;
>       th->first_func_arg = arg;
>
> +    th->priority = GET_THREAD()->priority;
> +
>       native_mutex_initialize(&th->interrupt_lock);
>       /* kick thread */
>       st_insert(th->vm->living_threads, thval, (st_data_t)
> th->thread_id);

I tend to disagree on that. I was very surprised when I saw that priority 
inheritance was the default behaviour in Ruby. posix threads, for 
instance, do not inherit priority by default.
-- 
Sylvain Joyeux