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Subject: Re: [PATCH] niceness magic numbers, 2.4.20-pre11
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Kristis Makris <devcore@freeuk.com>
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On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 23:22, Kristis Makris wrote:
excuse my inexperience; I don't understand why a 41 value range
> is defined instead, and faked as a 40. Is this merely for the
> convinience of ignoring 0 ? From the nice manpage:
> 
> "Range goes from -20 (highest priority) to 19 (lowest)."

It is exported to user-space.  Changing it will break things.

	Robert Love