Re: Implementation of sched_rr_get_interval for NT systems.

[Robert Collins <rbcollins at cygwin dot com>]

On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 11:50, Vaclav Haisman wrote:
> Hi,
> this patch implements sched_rr_get_interval for NT systems. The patch consists
> of two parts.
> 
> The first part is detection of NT server systems, NT servers have different
> time quanta than workstations. Unfortunately the server detection is not
> perfect because GetVersionEx call with OSVERSIONINFOEX structure is supported
> only on NT 4 SP6 and newer system. Therefore new is_system wincaps flag
> defaults to false as I assume that there are more NT workstations than servers.
> 
> The second part is implementation of sched_rr_get_interval in sched.cc itself.
> I have used two main sources of informations about time quanta for NT systems.
> Those sources are two web pages:
> http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/4354c.asp
> http://www.jsifaq.com/SUBH/tip3700/rh3795.htm
> 


You should get for failure on all API calls you make - for instance the
registry key reading one. Other than that, the sched.cc stuff looks good
to me. 

This will need a copyright assignment though, and Chris/Corinna to chime
in.

Cheers,
Rob
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