Re: Proposal: Linux "hit-list"

Petri Kaukasoina (kaukasoi@elektroni.ee.tut.fi)
Tue, 27 Feb 1996 08:53:05 +0200 (EET)

This is not in the hit-list page. Because of change in priority values in
the kernel, nice does not work right. And at least xntpd 3.4x runs using a
positive nice value whereas it should run with a negative nice value.

The cure is a simple patch in libc-5.2.18 which follows.

BTW, I noticed that I could not compile libc-5.2.18 using the includes
from kernel 1.3.68, but it did compile with the includes from Slackware
3.0's 1.2.13 elf-patched kernel sources.

--- libc/sysdeps/linux/i386/getprio.c.orig Sat Feb 18 07:33:34 1995
+++ libc/sysdeps/linux/i386/getprio.c Mon Feb 26 16:37:15 1996
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
#include <sys/resource.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>

-#define PZERO 15
+#define PZERO 20

int
getpriority(int which, int who)