On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 18:23 +0200, Dario Faggioli wrote:
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> On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:25 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > My suggestion would be to create struct sched_param2 with plenty of
> > padding to support future expansion and add
> > sys_sched_setscheduler2()/sys_sched_getscheduler2() to deal with this
> > new structure.
> And we will miss POSIX compliance. :-(
> Anyway, I agree the ABI issue this could raise are serious enough and, I
> repeat, I can't see any other solution too.

Well, a new version of glibc could use those to implement the posix
interface. Because as I understand it, glibc can break ABI on certain
version bumps.

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