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    SubjectRe: Scheduler: Process priority fed back to parent?
    On Tue 16-03-04 14:49:41, Horst von Brand wrote:
    > Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org> said:
    >
    > [...]
    >
    > > This is something that I've thought of doing in the past. The reason I
    > > didn't pursue it further is that it's impossible to get it right for
    > > all cases, and it attacks the problem in the wrong place. The kernel
    > > shouldn't need to guess(timate) what the process is going to do. The
    > > userspace programmer, who knows what his process is going to do,
    > > should tell the kernel.
    >
    > People have been known to lie on occasion, particularly when it is to their
    > advantage...

    You could heavily penalize process that lied... Or perhaps his user.

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