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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: shell bugs
Message-ID: <6849@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 27 Mar 91 19:01:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: auspex.6849
References: <1991Mar20.233210.7410@mks.com> <1991Mar22.053024.5575@jpradley.jpr.com>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>>In System V/386 r3.2, the shell nices all background jobs.
>>This is unacceptable for non-interactive shells.
>
>On SCO UNIX 3.2, the niceness is configurable by modifying
>/etc/defaults/queuedefs. Perhaps your system does not have such a file?

If modifying that file actually changes what the *Bourne shell* does
with jobs run with "&", rather than changing the niceness of jobs run
with "at" or "batch", that's an SCO-ism; the original poster's system
probably has a "queuedefs" file, or can have one, but unless they have a
system tweaked to make the shell look at that file, it won't have any
effect.

Hopefully, S5R4's Bourne shell won't do this (at least not when it's run
as "jsh"), given that, in S5R4, as in other systems with BSD-style or
POSIX-style job control, "background" is a temporary state, not a way of
life....