Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rtech.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!amdahl!rtech!jas From: jas@rtech.ARPA (Jim Shankland) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Adding a nice field to a.out headers??? Message-ID: <178@rtech.ARPA> Date: Wed, 27-Feb-85 16:08:13 EST Article-I.D.: rtech.178 Posted: Wed Feb 27 16:08:13 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 08:13:10 EST References: <957@reed.UUCP> Organization: Relational Technology, Berkeley CA Lines: 17 > I've been wondering why we couldn't add a field into a.out headers that > would set the default niceness of a process.... One can cheat and put a > frontend shell file that does a "nice +10 rogue", but I find this very > un-UNIX. > > Joe Pruett > Reed College > ...!tektronix!reed!joey On the contrary, I'd say it's very much in the UNIX style to use existing tools (such as nice(1)) where they work well. If your one-line shell script says "exec nice +10 rogue", there is even very little extra overhead compared with building a nice value into the object header. Jim Shankland ..!ihnp4!pegasus!rtech!jas ..!ucbvax!mtxinu!rtech!jas