From: utzoo!decvax!microsof!andyp
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: 3.0 nice system call
Article-I.D.: microsof.6171
Posted: Wed Mar 23 14:28:39 1983
Received: Thu Mar 24 20:34:56 1983

v7  nice returns -1 for error, 0 for no error.
3.0 nice returns -1 for error, (resulting_nice_value - 20) for no error.
resulting_nice_value is in the range (0 <= n <= 39).

What happens when a 3.0 utility does a nice which results in a priority
of 19 (e.g. starts at normal priority, then does a nice(-1))?  It would
seem that nice will return -1, which is (almost) indistinguishable from
the error return.  (True, one could look at errno, but who wants to go
through all of that).

Suggestions or comments?

Andy Padawer	Microsoft	...decvax!microsoft!andyp