From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newspeer1.nac.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: assigning priority to task Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:36:39 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <48e30c11-d88b-40ec-94c1-4bc4238522bf@googlegroups.com> <4d7aa83c-faa0-40b9-8140-76e6218a7311@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="272a0c27c56b2c3b0dc8613c85258f4f"; logging-data="31476"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18QvPzWmUzAj4Q5ckqEAI31C9ZJekeSwSg=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:z3AMWtnm2942MCBrva8HwX7m9Ow= sha1:8mbcNvugKN5sgjSH8GfLKwuZPiM= Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:189140 Date: 2014-09-24T20:36:39+01:00 List-Id: Stribor40 writes: > I know but i wanted to try to see if i sssign priorities output can be > somewhat controled but apparently those assigned priorities didnt > matter It used to be the case on Linux (and, I think, Solaris) that pragma Priority only had any effect if the program was running as root: $ sudo ./task1 I just tried this on Mac OS X and running as root made no difference.