[vox-tech] how to be not nice within C

[Nicole Carlson]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> is there a way for an executable written in C to change its own nice
> value?
> is there a system call that does this sort of thing?

Not that I've tried this or anything, but have you tried
  system('renice 10');
?

(or whatever value you want, or sprintf(buffer, 'renice ', value) and
system(buffer) to get a variable in there)

--nicole twn
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