OT: to be "nice", or not...

Wed Aug 6 17:49:00 GMT 2003

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 07:42:04PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote:
>> Scenario:
> I launch a task at normal priority (nice-ness 0)
> When this task has finished I wish to be paged...
>> In other words;
> Question: Can I have one task be postponed while another one
> is still executing?
>> Is this possible?
>>> e.g. a command sequence that might take a long time:
>> $ echo >list.md5 ; find -type f | xargs md5sum -b >>list.md5
> $ nice -n 19 cat TaskDone.wav >/dev/dsp
>>> *The point* is beeing able to launch the time/cpu-consuming task and then
> "append" the paging later.
>> The obvious is to concatenate "cat ..." with the line above it
> - but this is NOT the answer I'm asking for.

 $ (
 > long task
 > second task
 > ) &
 $ 
jl
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