Range for nice and priority: negative?

Ulrich Windl (Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de)
Thu, 4 Apr 1996 12:44:12 +0100


The current ps -lax has not enough room for nice value "-12".
Other UN*Xes only use positive values at the user level. Why is
procps displaying negative values? What does POSIX say?

Ulrich