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 {allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdccsu3}!sdcrdcf!jonab