ksh discriminates background processes

[Rob McMahon]

In article <siebren.644249314 at piring.cwi.nl> siebren at cwi.nl (Siebren van der Zee) writes:
>Does anybody know why the new Korn shell lowers the priority of background
>processes?

I see others have replied about ksh, about which I know next to nothing (it's
too expensive for us round here, I'm waiting until bash is reliable enough,
which I suspect will be the next release), but the version of tcsh I use runs
background processes at `nice +2' unless you use `nice +0 prog &'.  Seems to
work quite well to me ...

Rob
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