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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
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Subject: Re: nice(1) takes an absolute priority a
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Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 20:40:52 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 11 20:40:52 1984
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> >	My fix was to use nice(3c) instead of the overkill of getpriority(2).

> If you just used getpriority and setpriority it would at
> least be clear exactly what you were doing.

Except, of course, to those of us who lack getpriority and setpriority.
(Take my 4.1bsd system, please.  :-))  The nice call at least has the
advantage of being portable to a larger number of UNIX* (and variant)
systems.
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