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From: Zefram <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
To: coleman@math.gatech.edu (Richard Coleman)
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Pid or not pid
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 21:35:31 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16203.199511162135@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199511161825.NAA27010@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> from "Richard Coleman" at Nov 16, 95 01:25:32 pm

>> Some of the code in execcmd() is getting executed in the parent rather
>> than the child, presumably since the last rearrangement... in
>> particular, nice(5) is getting called if fork() returned a non-zero
>> pid, i.e. in the parent (line 1350 of exec.c).  This means each time a
>> background process is forked, the parent shell has a lower priority.
>> This may be a good way to deal with process hogs, but I don't think
>> it's what's intended.
>
>err...  No I didn't intend that.  But maybe we should leave it
>as an option :-)

One has to wonder, though, whether this FG_NICE option should be on by
default.  Obviously, the maximally backward compatible choice would be
for it to be on.  (-:

-zefram


  reply	other threads:[~1995-11-16 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1995-11-16 15:57 Peter William Stephenson
1995-11-16 18:25 ` Richard Coleman
1995-11-16 21:35   ` Zefram [this message]
1995-11-16 23:57 ` Richard Coleman

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