Re: [boost] Next revision of boost::thread

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-09 08:54:30

At 03:03 PM 1/8/2003, William E. Kempf wrote:

 >The sched_fifo, sched_rr, sched_other, scope_process, and scope_system
 >values are implementation defined, and on POSIX correspond to SCHED_FIFO, 

 >SCHED_RR, SCHED_OTHER, PTHREAD_SCOPE_PROCESS and PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM
 >respectively.

A similar situation came up in the Filesystem Library exception classes 
where we needed enums for some error codes.

In the end, we decided that meaningful names were more important than 
compatibility with POSIX.

Most of the ones you list above seem OK as-is. But sched_rr? What does that 
mean?  How about renaming it "sched_round_robin"?

If you put "round robin scheduling" into Google, you get links to pages 
clearly explaining the concept.

If you put "sched_rr" into Google, you get links to pages which are much 
less enlightening.

--Beman