RE: [Boost-Users] set thread priority

From: William E. Kempf (wekempf_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-05 12:50:45

Mark Storer said:
> I'd think a relatively simple implementation would be to simply support
> them when possible, and otherwise turn all such calls into no-ops.

That would be a major pain for users.  If they aren't available, they
shouldn't exist, and the hooks for conditional compilation should be
provided (this is what POSIX does).

> Coming up with a range of priority values that would be portable
> shouldn't be too terribly difficult either.

Actually, this *IS* the difficult part (well, beyond the design decisions).

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William E. Kempf