karl@sugar.UUCP (Karl Lehenbauer) (06/10/88)
According to my AT&T System V User's Manual, the super-user may run commands with priority higher than normal by using a negative increment, e.g., nice --2 It doesn't work. Nice bombs, saying 'Badly formed number'
johnl@n3dmc.UUCP (John Limpert) (06/11/88)
In article <2099@sugar.UUCP> karl@sugar.UUCP (Karl Lehenbauer) writes: >According to my AT&T System V User's Manual, the super-user may run >commands with priority higher than normal by using a negative increment, >e.g., nice --2 > >It doesn't work. Nice bombs, saying 'Badly formed number' It does work. Just tried it on Microport System V/AT 2.3. You are probably trying to do this with /bin/csh. The nice command is built into the C shell and the syntax is different. The C shell version of "nice --20 foo" is "nice +20 foo". It would have been nice if they had kept compatibility with the old syntax. You can also use "/bin/nice --20 foo" with either shell. -- John A. Limpert UUCP: johnl@n3dmc.UUCP uunet!n3dmc!johnl PACKET: n3dmc@n3dmc.ampr.org n3dmc@wa3pxx