Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site elsie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!elsie!ado From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: nice(1) takes an absolute priority a Message-ID: <4100@elsie.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 20:40:52 EST Article-I.D.: elsie.4100 Posted: Tue Dec 11 20:40:52 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 00:47:27 EST References: <243@utcs.UUCP> <47500003@ccvaxa.UUCP> Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD Lines: 15 > > 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. -- Nice is a Mister Rogers trademark. UNIX is an AT&T Bell Laboratories trademark. -- ..decvax!seismo!elsie!ado (301) 496-5688 DEC, VAX and Elsie are Digital Equipment and Borden trademarks