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> One of the discussion items is the issue of priority aging. While I do > not object to it, I suggest that it not be included as a specified > part of SRFI-18 on the basis that priority aging conflicts with hard > RT and hence would preclude a RT-SRFI. Or at the very least, priority > aging should be a thread specific (rather than global) option that can > be ignored in RT systems. Priority decay, as is done in QNX, could be obtained on a thread by thread basis by adding a "decay" field to threads. It would specify the amount of priority decay to apply if the thread reaches its quantum. Setting the decay to 0 would cancel the effect. Marc