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
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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
I know this is going to sound like a Unix question, but...
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
priority apply to the child process also? and what about the exec of the
child process does
