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Subject: Change of idprio between 2.2.5 an 2.2.6
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 09:18:04 +0200
From: Torbjorn Granlund <tege@matematik.su.se>
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In 2.2.5 a mortal was allowed to use idprio (with some restriction even for
his/her own processes) but in 2.2.6 idprio is like rtprio--only the
superuser may use it.  This observed change is confirmed by a change in the
manual pages for idprio/rtprio.

Why was this change made?  A user-accessible means of starting a truly
low-priority proess was an important feature.  (No, `nice' does not do
that.)

Torbjorn

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