diff --git a/src/libCom/osi/os/Linux/osdThread.h b/src/libCom/osi/os/Linux/osdThread.h
index 729d0aacd..859749837 100644
--- a/src/libCom/osi/os/Linux/osdThread.h
+++ b/src/libCom/osi/os/Linux/osdThread.h
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ typedef struct epicsThreadOSD {
     epicsEventId       suspendEvent;
     int                isSuspended;
     int                isEpicsThread;
-    int                isFifoScheduled;
+    int                isRealTimeScheduled;
     int                isOnThreadList;
     unsigned int       osiPriority;
     char               name[1];     /* actually larger */
diff --git a/src/libCom/osi/os/posix/osdThread.c b/src/libCom/osi/os/posix/osdThread.c
index 9d5828bf1..92bc572f0 100644
--- a/src/libCom/osi/os/posix/osdThread.c
+++ b/src/libCom/osi/os/posix/osdThread.c
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ epicsShareFunc epicsThreadId epicsShareAPI epicsThreadCreate(const char *name,
     if(pthreadInfo==0) return 0;
     pthreadInfo->isEpicsThread = 1;
     setSchedulingPolicy(pthreadInfo,SCHED_FIFO);
-    pthreadInfo->isFifoScheduled = 1;
+    pthreadInfo->isRealTimeScheduled = 1;
     status = pthread_create(&pthreadInfo->tid,&pthreadInfo->attr,
                 start_routine,pthreadInfo);
     if(status==EPERM){
@@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ epicsShareFunc void epicsShareAPI epicsThreadSetPriority(epicsThreadId pthreadIn
         return;
     }
     pthreadInfo->osiPriority = priority;
-    if(!pthreadInfo->isFifoScheduled) return;
+    if(!pthreadInfo->isRealTimeScheduled) return;
 #if defined (_POSIX_THREAD_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING) 
     pthreadInfo->schedParam.sched_priority = getOssPriorityValue(pthreadInfo);
     status = pthread_attr_setschedparam(
diff --git a/src/libCom/osi/os/posix/osdThread.h b/src/libCom/osi/os/posix/osdThread.h
index cd26159d9..8da859e94 100644
--- a/src/libCom/osi/os/posix/osdThread.h
+++ b/src/libCom/osi/os/posix/osdThread.h
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ typedef struct epicsThreadOSD {
     epicsEventId       suspendEvent;
     int                isSuspended;
     int                isEpicsThread;
-    int                isFifoScheduled;
+    int                isRealTimeScheduled;
     int                isOnThreadList;
     unsigned int       osiPriority;
     char               name[1];     /* actually larger */