[vlc-devel] [PATCH] Drop POSIX real-time priorities

[Marvin Scholz]

At least on Darwin those are unused at least in VLC 3.x and
git master.

Not sure whats the state of it for Windows and if it really
makes sense to keep them.

On 30 Mar 2020, at 16:50, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:

> Le maanantaina 30. maaliskuuta 2020, 16.48.23 EEST Francois Cartegnie 
> a écrit
> :
>> Le 30/03/2020 à 15:44, Rémi Denis-Courmont a écrit :
>>> This only worked with root privileges, meaning it was pure placebo 
>>> for
>>> those few users that actually invoked the command line flag.
>>>
>>> And then it seems more likely to crash the system than the achieve 
>>> its
>>> purpose, seen as VLC was never designed to handle real-time 
>>> scheduling.
>>
>> AFAIU the vlc_thread priorities have also zero effect.
>
> Sure, I am in favor of removing vlc_set_priority() and the priority 
> argument
> to vlc_clone(). But maybe some other platforms want to keep their 
> placebo.
>
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