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From: "John T. Williams" <jowillia@vt.edu>
Subject: Re: specifying process priority
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 01:52:21 -0400
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To: Palash Mohanlal Kasodhan <pmkasodh@unity.ncsu.edu>, linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org

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>
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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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