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From: "John T. Williams" <jowillia@vt.edu>
To: Palash Mohanlal Kasodhan <pmkasodh@unity.ncsu.edu>,
	linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: specifying process priority
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 01:52:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000c01c36acd$0d5d15b0$ed64a8c0@descartes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.GSO.4.56.0308242242470.24177@uni01du.unity.ncsu.edu

There are two functions you might want to look at

setpriority and nice
just read the man pages
man 2 nice  and man 2 setpriority








----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Palash Mohanlal Kasodhan" <pmkasodh@unity.ncsu.edu>
To: <linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 10:47 PM
Subject: specifying process priority


> Hi:
>     Is there a way to specify the priority of a process you are creating
> by fork() besides using the 'nice' command..more specifically an API call
> to specify the priority at the time of creating a process ..like an RTOS
>
>
> thanks
>
> palash
>
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-25  5:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-25  2:47 specifying process priority Palash Mohanlal Kasodhan
2003-08-25  3:19 ` Glynn Clements
2003-08-25  5:52 ` John T. Williams [this message]

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