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9945-2-83 _____________________________________________________________________________ Topic: renice Relevant Sections: 5.24 Defect Report: ----------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 12:08:33 -0500 From: "David J. Fiander" <[email protected]> I request an interpretation of the behaviour of the renice command as described in ISO/IEC. 9945-2:1993, section 5.24. The standard, and obsolescent command line forms can result in an ambiguity regarding which synopsis line to use. The command line renice 4 5 6 may be a "new" synopsis invocation, requesting that the processes 4, 5, and 6 be reniced by the default increment, or it may be an obsolescent invocation, requesting that processes 5 and 6 have their nice values set to 4. How should this ambiguity be resolved? I recommend giving priority to the "new" format, i.e. processes 4, 5, and 6 will all have their nice values incremented by the default nice increment. WG15 response for 9945-2:1993 ----------------------------------- The standard is unclear on this issue, and no conformance distinction can be made between alternative implementations based on this. This is being referred to the sponsor. Rationale ------------- None. Forwarded to Interpretations group: 12 Nov 94 Response received: Feb 10 1995 Proposed Resoln forwarded: 13th Feb 1995 Finalised: March 28th 1995 _____________________________________________________________________________