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Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 13:48:19 -0400
From: Jon LaBadie <jcyg AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: ML CygWIN <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: OT: to be "nice", or not...
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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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