Help with making stuff compile on non-Linux

[Sebastian Trüg]

On Tuesday 22 July 2008 22:25:08 Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 July 2008 20:03:36 Sebastian Trüg wrote:
> > I need the attached code to compile for KDE. That means that I need cmake
> > checks and windows or mac versions for it. Can someone help me there
> > before I commit?
>
> As Thiago points out, also on the "Minority Free Software Operating
> Systems". it would help if the code was commented or documented in some way
> (at all) so that it would be easier to determine what the Right Way to do
> whatever it is doing is. Ugh, that's convoluted :)

right.

> Are all three of the functions supposed to be ported, or do you need just
> one of them?

I think priority and io priority are most important. I am not even sure if the 
scheduling does make a big difference. The idea is to have strigi not spoil 
the fun of using the desktop when its indexing in the background.

> I'd need more documentation about the intent of using the syscall interface
> there; while I have access to a Mandriva machine, I'd really prefer not to
> go reading through system headers.

Here on Gentoo the ioprio thing works great. I feel no slowdown during 
strigi's intense indexing at all. Would be great to have something similar on 
other systems like MAC and Windows (sure, BSD also but that is a real 
minority ;)

> setpriority(3c) exists on Solaris, with the same semantics (it's a standard
> interface).
>
> sched_setscheduler(3rt) exists on Solaris, with the same semantics (it's a
> standard interface, apparently). SCHED_BATCH is not a POSIX scheduling
> policy; it is not defined in Solaris.

I see. For now I did the #ifdef SCHED_BATCH Alex suggested.

> setpriority(2) exists on FreeBSD 6-STABLE. I do not know about 7-STABLE or
> 8- CURRENT, but since it's standard I would assume so.
>
> sched_setscheduler(2) exists on FreeBSD 6-STABLE. Same comment for later
> version support. Same comment for SCHED_BATCH as for Solaris.
>
> [ade]