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From: ekrell@ulysses.att.com (Eduardo Krell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ksh discriminates background processes
Keywords: ksh, nice, errr... ugly
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Date: 2 Jun 90 13:51:16 GMT
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In article <siebren.644249314@piring.cwi.nl> siebren@cwi.nl (Siebren van der Zee) writes:
>Does anybody know why the new Korn shell lowers the priority
>of background processes? 

Because you have the "bgnice" option on. Type "set -o" and you'll see
a line that says

bgnice           off

This is the default behavior. If you want this changed, add
"set +o bgnice" to your ENV file.
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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