Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 22:30:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/44332: look and feel of nice & renice Message-ID: <200210220530.g9M5U9TX058205@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/44332; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Alex <akruijff@dds.nl> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/44332: look and feel of nice & renice Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 08:25:10 +0300 On 2002-10-21 04:50, Alex <akruijff@dds.nl> wrote: > I like renice to use the same look and feel concerning the priority > as nice. I didn't relise this differance and cause a non responce > system. (a prosess was supposed to run with idle processor time) > > nice [-number] command [arguments] > renice priority [[-p] pid ...] [[-g] pgrp ...] [[-u] user ...] Unfortunately, the arguments and their types for each of these commands are defined to be different from each other in standards like the Single Unix Specification. FreeBSD-current has a nice command in /usr/bin that conforms to a standard and changing the way it works would break compatibility with the standard. Similar things apply to renice(1). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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