> 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