[LUNI] Scheduling question in 2.4/2.6

[Steven Lembark]

> ok. i checked man, it is only when you need to renice a value that is
> lesser than 0 that you need root privileges. if it is within 0 and
> PRIO_MAX(20), it is fine, provided the process is owned by you.

renice only modifies the nice value, not the ultimate
scheduling priority. I'd like the thing to remain at
the end of the run que permenantly. This is done on
Solaris using a table-driven approach: jobs exit with
a new scheduling value based on their old one. If the
entry and exit values are the same then the jobs's
scheduling priority (vs. niceness) never changes.

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