Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)" To: "ML CygWIN" Subject: OT: to be "nice", or not... Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 19:42:04 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 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. /Hannu E K Nevalainen, Mariefred, Sweden --END OF MESSAGE-- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/