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From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)" <garbage_collector AT telia DOT com>
To: "ML CygWIN" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: OT: to be "nice", or not...
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 19:42:04 +0200
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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

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