Op 18-06-2025 om 18:41 schreef Madadi Vineeth Reddy:
So, my thought is just to make priority argument optional for policies that don't use it and keep the existing behavior as is.
That's not possible. Currently, doing something like ./chrt --idle --pid $$ just reports the current policy and priority, and does not change the policy (because the priority is missing). After your patch, doing the same command reports nothing but _does_ change the policy. You could still make it report the current settings, but that would give the wrong idea, because it would be the _old_ settings. So, as Karel said, silently ignoring the policy option when no priority was given was ugly. Too ugly to keep it that way. As Karel implied: break compatibility and do the sensible thing: whenever a policy option is given, act upon it -- and when a needed priority is missing, error out. Benno
Attachment:
OpenPGP_signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
