Subj : Re: reliability of setting thread priority
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : gottlobfrege
Date : Fri Feb 25 2005 03:08 pm


David Schwartz wrote:
>
>     What you need is a mutex or critical section that is initialized
by
> copying static data onto it. Essentially, you need pthread_once.
>
>     DS

Yes, I quite understand.  I guess what I didn't explain is that for
sane or insane reasons, I'm basically writing my own pthread_once.  I
just wondered if there was a better way than what boils down to a
global named mutex - which is by no means bad, but just wondering...

AND, wondering about the consistency of setting thread priorities on
various platforms.  No one has yet said that messing with thread
priorities is never consistent ie because you don't know the scheduling
algorithm or it is not widely supported, etc.

But, yeah, the immediate result was for a pthread_once.

Tony.
Tony.

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