On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Brad Beveridge wrote: > wouldn't it be > nice 19 emerge package ? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: C Falconer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... > > nice -19 emerge package
It can be quite confusing with the option dash and the "polarity" of the nice argument. I remember a colleague running cdrecord on his heavily simulation-loaded workstation with nice -17, while he had actually intended to un-nice it which would have been nice --17. But since all his CDs were recorded all right, he never noticed until I stumbled over it and asked him why he was running cdrecord with a really "nice" priority :-) That was for nice (GNU sh-utils) 2.0 The nice priority will be the same for child processes. Cheers, Helmut. +----------------+ | Helmut Walle | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | 03 - 388 39 54 | +----------------+
