loic@uunet.uu.net@axis.UUCP (07/05/88)
Posting-number: Volume 3, Issue 73 Submitted-by: "A. Nonymous" <loic@uunet.uu.net@axis.UUCP> Archive-name: donice The renice command dynamically change the nice value of a process. It uses a hiden system call (donice). Here is a library function to use it. It will work on NUXI-V.2 distribution 1.2 for VAX-11. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #! /bin/sh # This is a shell archive, meaning: # 1. Remove everything above the #! /bin/sh line. # 2. Save the resulting text in a file. # 3. Execute the file with /bin/sh (not csh) to create the files: # donice.s # This archive created: Sun Jul 3 21:22:45 1988 # export PATH; PATH=/bin:$PATH if test -f 'donice.s' then echo shar: will not over-write existing file "'donice.s'" else cat << \SHAR_EOF > 'donice.s' .file "donice.c" .data .text .align 4 .globl _donice _donice: halt halt chmk $0x38 bgequ .L13 jmp _donice .L13: ret .data SHAR_EOF chmod 644 'donice.s' fi # end of overwriting check # End of shell archive exit 0