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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2019-02-02 14:13:33 +0100
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2019-02-02 14:15:27 +0100
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manual: Document lack of conformance of sched_* functions [BZ #14829]
On Linux, we define _POSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING, but functions such as sched_setparam and sched_setscheduler apply to individual threads, not processes. Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/posix_opt.h5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/posix_opt.h b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/posix_opt.h
index b3bf5efd4d..ca020d3cdd 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/posix_opt.h
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/posix_opt.h
@@ -25,7 +25,10 @@
/* Processes have a saved set-user-ID and a saved set-group-ID. */
#define _POSIX_SAVED_IDS 1
-/* Priority scheduling is supported. */
+/* Priority scheduling is not supported with the correct semantics,
+ but GNU/Linux applications expect that the corresponding interfaces
+ are available, even though the semantics do not meet the POSIX
+ requirements. See glibc bug 14829. */
#define _POSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING 200809L
/* Synchronizing file data is supported. */