From: Richard Coleman <coleman@math.gatech.edu>
To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Pid or not pid
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 13:25:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199511161825.NAA27010@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Nov 1995 16:57:47 +0100." <9511161557.AA20201@sgi.ifh.de>
> 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 :-)
rc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1995-11-16 18:46 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 [this message]
1995-11-16 21:35 ` Zefram
1995-11-16 23:57 ` Richard Coleman
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