2 SCHED_IDLE bugs in Cygwin 3.6

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis@SystematicSW.ab.ca
Fri Dec 20 06:35:51 GMT 2024


On 2024-12-19 14:08, René Berber via Cygwin wrote:
> On 12/19/2024 2:01 PM, Eliot Moss via Cygwin wrote:
>> On 12/19/2024 1:43 PM, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
>>> cygwin.git;a=commit;h=61c2f075cd55d4a52b4713383f75870c1e416923
>>> added SCHED_IDLE support for Cygwin 3.6. It should work.
> --------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^
>> Cygwin should support it, but I wonder if chrt (in util-linux) has been 
>> updated in light of the change.
> Version 3.6 is not a release, so unless you're using a snapshot...

The maintainer can flip Cygwin to test 3.6... and use that to build a test 
release of util-linux with Cygwin >= 3.6 as a dependency and make that test 
release available.

See for example the current dash release which requires functions added in 3.5:

	https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/dash.html
-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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