Implement THREAD_PRIORITY_TIME_CRITICAL

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Fri Mar 31 15:31:51 CST 2006


Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> writes:

>> Not to mention that SCHED_FIFO requires root, which is an absolute PITA.
>
> Not really. 
>
>   su -c 'wine IG2.exe'   
>
> It's not all that inconvenient :)

Until it crashes your box of course... I really don't think we want to
encourage running as root, or give Windows apps a way to screw up the
system. If we have to require people to upgrade their kernel to get
the feature that's fine; at least then when the box dies we can blame
the kernel guys ;-)

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org



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