I actually wrote my own scheduler variant once. It's frustrating how disk hungry background tasks can hose the responsiveness on most systems and easy to fix if you're willing to pass in more information from userland. There's ionice nowadays, though.
Normal users do install third party anti-virus programs frequently on general purpose computers. That isn't on the level of a scheduler in terms of system access, but it is veto power over program execution and file access. Oh, well. I still have a Zaurus Linux PDA from over a decade ago that I can carry around when I need a phone sized computer. On Dec 10, 12:39 am, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Greg Donald <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just seems wrong to call the platform "open" when it's really only as > > open as Google sees fit to allow. Would it not be frowned upon if the > > Linux Kernel developers started making kernel components vendors > > couldn't override/replace? "Sorry, you can't use or develop your own > > sound card driver, you have to use ours that doesn't do quite what you > > wanted." > > Yeah or let you replace the scheduler! Oh, wait... > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
