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Olin Lathrop wrote:
[snip]
> It may not be possible.  Essentially you are asking for a way to have a
> particular task declare that it be the only task that gets CPU until it says
> otherwise.  Some real time OSes might support that, but no ordinary desktop
> OS or multi-user system would allow that.

Ahem.... *points at Linux's sched_setscheduler(SCHED_FIFO)*:

"A SCHED_FIFO process runs until either it is blocked by an I/O request,
it is preempted by a higher priority process, or it calls sched_yield(2)."

although one does have to have CAP_SYS_NICE (typically only held by
root) to do this.

Chris
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