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Date:      Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:53:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: Erm, who broke nice?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.011019145354.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011019143219.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On 19-Oct-01 John Baldwin wrote:
> I know that some people are complaining about the performance of current and
> all, but breaking nice so that we can't make processes run slower is just
> going
> too far. :)
> 
>> nice -20 buildworld
> setpriority: Permission denied.
> 
> Any ideas?

Idea #1: PEBKAC due to me using tcsh and it having an arguably more intuitive
but nonetheless gratuitously incompatible builtin nice command.  nice +20
buildworld worked fine.  *sigh*

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