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> From [e-mail]  Fri Sep 21 13:19:38 1990
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> Posted-Date: 21 Sep 90 13:47:37 GMT
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< From: [e-mail] (cornelius.hill)
< Newsgroups: misc.forsale,na.forsale,ba.market.housing,su.market
< Subject: FOR SALE: PART OWNERSHIP IN CALIFORNIA RESORT
< Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
< Followup-To: poster
< Organization: Motorola CSD, Cupertino CA
< Date: 20 Sep 90 23:09:13 GMT
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> From: [e-mail] (David A Willcox)
> Newsgroups: comp.std.unix
> Subject: Re: Standards Update, IEEE 1003.2: Shell and tools
> Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
> References: <[e-mail]>
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> Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division, Urbana, IL
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> Date: 21 Sep 90 13:47:37 GMT
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> To: [e-mail]
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> Submitted-by: [e-mail] (David A Willcox)
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<    FOR SALE
<    ========
<
<    Part ownership in a Ranch Resort near the town of Redding, located
<    in northern California.
<
<    This is not a Time-Share; once you are an owner you can visit 365 days
<    a year for as long as you wish to stay. There are camper and trailer
<    hookups as well as areas for tents.
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> In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Jeffrey S. Haemer) writes:
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<    What you get with this is 250 cabins, 2 swimming pools, 2 hot tubs,
<    a 42 room hotel, 100+ horses, dance hall, club house, restaurant,
<    tennis courts, volleyball courts, Gun range (pistol, Rifle and Archery),
<    2 sites for tents, 2 sites for campers, hiking trails, trails for 4WD
<    and other off road vehicles, 3 lakes for fishing, and much more. You are
<    near Lake Shasta, but not too near. There is Cross Country Skiing as
<    well as Hill Skiing each year.
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> >A few utilities remain contentious:
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<    The Ranch is a place to get away from the working world and enjoy
<    life all over again. I am leaving CA. and wish to sell my interest in
<    this Ranch I do not plan on coming back. The asking price is $140,000,
<    but I am willing to hear all who are interested. You can call me at
<    [phone] (home), [phone]/4108 (work) or you can
<    send me an e-mail.
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> >   + nice, renice: These require underlying functionality absent from
> >     POSIX.1, although POSIX.4 has setscheduler(), which allows
> >     applications to set priority and scheduling algorithms.
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<    Thanks...
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> A point of clarification:  These utilities, as defined in 1003.2a,
> do NOT require any functionality that is not in 1003.1.  Both can be
> implemented on a bare-bones 1003.1 system as having no effect on
> execution priority.  The following, for example, is a valid
> shell script implementation of nice:
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<    - Cornelius Hill
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>     case $1 in
>         -n) shift;shift;;
>         -*  shift;;
>     esac
>     exec $*
>
> renice is a little more complicated, but not much.  (It should just have
> to check for valid arguments.)
>
> So saying that you can't implement this on a 1003.1 system is not only
> a red herring, it simply isn't true.
>
> Providing these utilities allows well-mannered applications to make use
> of the priority manipluation features that are already provided by most
> implementations.
>
> David A. Willcox        "Just say 'NO' to universal drug testing"
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>
> Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 122