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

From: William E. Kempf (wekempf_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-09 09:52:00

> From: Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]>
> 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.

I'm not married to any of the names.  I can easily rename it to sched_round_robin.  I'd even be willing to spell "sched" out in all of these names, if that's what's preferred.

William E. Kempf
wekempf_at_[hidden]