In *nix, he child process inherits the nice value of the parent process,
and, unless the process owner is the super-user, the child process cannot
be given a higher priority. This would also apply to calls to system() and
backticks, since they all basically use the same mechanism. It also
ap
2002 1:28 PM
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> Subject: Re: nice, perl, fork and exec
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> > If I run a perl script with nice, (in Unix
> > it reprioritizes the process), and fork in
> > perl and run an exec "command" with the
> > child, does the nice prior
