[interfacekit] Re: __mime_table

> On one hand I don't think that should be an application wide decision -
> - an application may run threads of different priority -- and on the 
> other hand I still think that threads of little importance can be 
> identified by their priority, which would be <= B_LOW_PRIORITY. As the 
> registrar's updater thread would have B_LOW_PRIORITY it is even 
> guaranteed that the low priority threads won't be starved by the 
> updater thread.

Some low priority threads run at priority lower than B_LOW_PRIORITY, but
I'd imagine that they wouldn't care too much -- since these are likely to
be more frivolous than fixing up the filesystem, which, is important to
the smoooooth operation of BeOS.

Isaac

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