Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!emory!att!dptg!ulysses!andante!alice!debra From: debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: ksh discriminates background processes Keywords: ksh, nice, errr... ugly Message-ID: <10890@alice.UUCP> Date: 2 Jun 90 14:16:02 GMT References: Reply-To: debra@alice.UUCP () Distribution: comp Organization: AT&T, Bell Labs Lines: 12 In article siebren@cwi.nl (Siebren van der Zee) writes: >Does anybody know why the new Korn shell lowers the priority >of background processes?... Because you ask it to do this. It's a variable called BGNICE i believe. Paul. -- ------------------------------------------------------ |debra@research.att.com | uunet!research!debra | ------------------------------------------------------