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From: bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Double niceness in rnews
Message-ID: <215@acornrc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Dec-86 15:11:06 EST
Article-I.D.: acornrc.215
Posted: Thu Dec 11 15:11:06 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Dec-86 22:22:23 EST
Organization: Acorn Research Centre, Palo Alto, CA
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Keywords: nice, NICENESS, rnews, inews.c, 2.11
Summary: nice(NICENESS) getting called twice?

I notice that having defined NICENESS=4 in defs.h, that rnews ends up
running at niceness=8.  compress and unbatch run properly at niceness=4.
Therefore I suspect that nice() is getting called twice, once by a
parent process and once by a child?

My online manual (4.2bsd) suggests that nice() is obsolete in favor
of setpriority(), which doesn't have the "feature" that its argument
is added to the previous niceness.

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Bob Weissman
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