From: KOSAKI Motohiro Date: 2010-05-18T04:26:42+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:30281] Re: [Feature #3176] Thread#priority= should actually do something > I tried to make it use pthread_setschedparam on linux. That would seem to be > the 'right' way to do what Kosaki was trying to do, since it allows you to set a > thread priority from another thread. But it caused problems; the test program > never finished, and wouldn't obey my ^C. So I had to back all that code out. I'll > keep trying with that idea, since it would be preferable to have the OS handle > priorities if at all possible. setschedparam()? no, it's for real time thread mess. please don't use it.