nice(1) takes an absolute priority a

Jonathan Biggar jonab at sdcrdcf.UUCP
Fri Dec 14 05:49:23 AEST 1984


I doubt that Berkely every had plans to remove the nice call in favor of
get/setpriority.  They just provided an upwards compatible feature
and changed the nice system call to a library routine that used
get/setpriority.  To remove nice would be committing suicide.

Jon Biggar
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