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From: chen@digital.sps.mot.com (Jinfu Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Renice and ppri, only for those that are authorised??
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Date: 8 Oct 90 14:50:38 GMT
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In article <1990Oct5.170012.13818@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson)) writes:
>"Isn't this a nice feature" was their response when I APR'ed this over a
>year ago.  This "feature" is ridiculous - anyone can change the priority
>of ANY process, either up or down.

You may even shock if you're running pre-SR10.2, anyone can sigp (kill) any
process not own by the user.