Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!warwick!cudcv From: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: ksh discriminates background processes Keywords: ksh, nice, errr... ugly Message-ID: <1990Jun12.133949.931@warwick.ac.uk> Date: 12 Jun 90 13:39:49 GMT References: Sender: news@warwick.ac.uk (Network news) Distribution: comp Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK Lines: 15 In article siebren@cwi.nl (Siebren van der Zee) writes: >Does anybody know why the new Korn shell lowers the priority of background >processes? I see others have replied about ksh, about which I know next to nothing (it's too expensive for us round here, I'm waiting until bash is reliable enough, which I suspect will be the next release), but the version of tcsh I use runs background processes at `nice +2' unless you use `nice +0 prog &'. Seems to work quite well to me ... Rob -- UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!warwick!cudcv PHONE: +44 203 523037 JANET: cudcv@uk.ac.warwick INET: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk Rob McMahon, Computing Services, Warwick University, Coventry CV4 7AL, England