svn commit: r216955 - head/usr.sbin/rtprio

[Alexander Best]

On Fri Jan  7 11, Anonymous wrote:
> Alexander Best <arundel at freebsd.org> writes:
> 
> > On Thu Jan  6 11, John Baldwin wrote:
> >> Note that that usage is rather pointless since it means you apply rtprio to 
> >> the 'rtprio' process that is about to exit. :)
> >
> > yeah but at least it makes the usage of -X consistent. ;) also consider the
> > following: the current shell has idle priority and you want to run rtprio in
> > normal priority. then rtprio -t -0 would be a neat way of doing
> > rtprio -t rtprio. ;) wel...not quite, because the priotity gets set to "NORMAL"
> > when rtprio is almost finished running. ;)
> 
> I think it'd be useful if the syntax allowed smth like
> 
>   $ rtprio 1 -0 -111 -222 -333 -444 -555 ...

defenately, but that would require quite some code. also please bear in mind:
in its current form rtprio *DOES* process -0. my code doesn't change that. the
only thing that it changes is that before hand -0 was processed *AND* then also
executed. now the execution doesn't take place.

cheers.
alex

> 
> >
> > i admit using -0 for setting rtpio's own priority isn't very useful, but the
> > rtprio(1) manual states:
> >
> > Pid of 0 means "the current process".

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