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From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: bin/74227: renice odd behavior
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The following reply was made to PR bin/74227; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: bin/74227: renice odd behavior
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:26:01 +0000 (GMT)

 robert@fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research
 
 On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Jorge Mario G. Mazo wrote:
 
 > >Description:
 > 	When you renice a proces to 20 and the you renice it to -20
 > 	it wont jump from 20 to -20. it'll jump from 20 to 0
 > 	so you have to renice it again to actually get the -20 value
 > 	*Same thing happens backwards (-20 to 20)
 
 Isn't this the documented behavior of -n in renice(8):
 
      -n      Instead of changing the specified processes to the given prior-
              ity, interpret the following argument as an increment to be
              applied to the current priority of each process.
 
 Does renice work as desired if you omit the "-n" from the command line?
 
 Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
 robert@fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research