Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 May 2003 08:47:51 +0000 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: must-fix list for 2.6.0 |
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On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 01:42:12AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > Nuking a kernel feature > > (basically making sched_yield() more posix compliant) for ONE > > broken-since-fixed app doesn't sound like a good plan to me. > > You're promising there are no others?
I'm saying that about half the others will expect the new (posix) behavior and half will expect the old linux behavior of yielding only 1 spot. Whatever you do you can't win for everything; and the vast majority of the apps out there will not even call this function themselves. Ever. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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