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From: cwr@pnet01.cts.com (Will Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: PC 1.5.10 nice/profil/monitor
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Date: 4 Mar 91 16:16:01 GMT
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Kai-Uwe Bloem's recent posting of nice(1,2) runs ok on an IBM PC, with only
trivial changes.  However, the profil and monitor calls require a call
to a routine mcount from the startup file mrtso.s; this in turn requires
knowledge of how the compiler calls _procentry and _procexit.
 
Could someone with the compiler sources (as far as I know, there is no
other documentation) take a look at them, and either write mrtso.s or
post the calling conventions for _procentry and _procexit?  Everthing
else patches/compiles without much difficulty.
 
Nice, by the way, is a great improvement.  Editing while running a
background process feels much more reponsive, and the patches to ps
are pretty minor too.
 
Now all we need is Fred Van Kempen's rs232 patches, and a debugger
from somewhere...
 
Thanks for the help - Will
 
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