Re: exporting task_nice in O(1)-sched

From: Chris Friesen (cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com)
Date: Tue Apr 23 2002 - 11:51:48 EST

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Robert Love wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 11:27, J.A. Magallon wrote:
>
> > Found this building bproc. New O(1) scheduler kills the nice field in
> > task struct. It gives a way to fix the niceness (set_user_nice()), but
> > the funtion to _query_ is not exported. Any particular reason ?
>
> Probably because Ingo intended to hide as many interfaces to the
> scheduler as possible and only export those symbols that were needed.
>
> It is safe to export if it is needed.

Seems kind of silly to be able to set it but not read it...

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