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From: joey@reed.UUCP (Joe Pruett)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Adding a nice field to a.out headers???
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Date: Mon, 18-Feb-85 20:17:33 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 18 20:17:33 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 22-Feb-85 01:05:29 EST
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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I've been wondering why we couldn't add a field into a.out headers that
would set the default niceness of a process.  It would be very useful
for binary only systems, or systems where you don't want to recompile a
program just to change a programs niceness.  Good examples would be
rogue, compress, news-batching, uuxqt, etc.  One can cheat and put a
frontend shell file that does a "nice +10 rogue", but I find this very
un-UNIX.  What do you people out in the "real world" think?  Respond to
the net if you think this is worthy of major discussion.  Otherwise,
send me mail.

	Joe Pruett
	Reed College
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