On Sat, 08.05.10 11:21, Maarten Lankhorst (m.b.lankhorst at gmail.com) wrote: > > So let my rephrase my question to Maarten: Since there is no equivalent > > to RLIMIT_RTTIME in Windows, applications might assume they can run in > > RT for extended periods of time. This might be considered bad > > application behavior in any operating system, but nonetheless - do we > > risc regressions when these applications are being killed, instead of > > the previous behavior which just let them run in non-RT? > I don't think this will happen, if it is going to I will handle > SIGXCPU in wine, and just demote all realtime threads back to normal > priority when that signal is sent by the kernel. RLIMIT_RTTIME elapsing triggers a SIGKILL, not a SIGXCPU, unfortunately. (And SIGKILL you cannot catch) Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4