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From: jeffp@phred.UUCP (Jeff Parke)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Help needed; lowering priorities
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Date: Fri, 18-Apr-86 15:24:54 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 18 15:24:54 1986
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Organization: Physio Control Corp., Seattle, WA
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Keywords: manditory nice
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I am looking for a way using c to implement lower priorities for certain
commands, other than nice or calls that spawn new shells.  This would be
used in lieu of the following example:

mv /usr/bin/asm /usr/bin/asm.bin

(edit /usr/bin/asm to read) nice -10 /usr/bin/asm.bin !*

Is there a c program I can use to do same that would run faster? (Our system
is needing some automatic nicing).