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From: goudreau@larrybud.rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau)
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Subject: Re: Process priorities and X
Message-ID: <1990Jul5.180555.15546@dg-rtp.dg.com>
Date: 5 Jul 90 18:05:55 GMT
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In article <1990Jul4.061431.12129@servalan.uucp>, rmtodd@servalan.uucp
(Richard Todd) writes:
> 
> >My questions are:
> >    -does the DG, or do SYS V systems in general, have `renice'?
> 
>   In general, no, SysV systems don't support renice, because they don't 
> support the appropriate system call (setpriority(), I believe).  

But in the case of DG/UX, yes.  DG/UX is a merge of Sys V and BSD
features, and it supports getpriority()/setpriority() and nice(1).

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