Re: Bug and feature request in nice

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Paul Eggert wrote:

> > Next, a feature request: nice with -p should be alter the
> > priority of a running process.  That's perfectly possible as many
> > tools already do that.
>
> OK, but is there any precedent for that?  I thought this was renice's job.

Ah, I knew I'm missing something.  Ok, I wanted to change the
priority of a running process.  Following strace, I tried nice -p
with no luck.  My further insvestigations in "man nice" and
"info coreutils nice" didn't give any hint to "renice", so I
requested.  A first step is to add a line to those pages about
it, though I still prefer if nice do it itself.

Thanks
--behdad
http://behdad.org/