On 2/7/07, Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I wonder where this convention of using lower numbers to indicate higher priorities comes from... It seems to be quite prevalent even though it's obviously backwards.
I agree but at least in the case of 'nice' it works in the sense that the value increases with increasing niceness. Done the other way, they would have to call it 'mean,' then someone would wonder why 'mean 10 20' prints 'No such file or directory' instead of '15'... Bob - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
