Priority field in /etc/passwd??

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <4670 at teal10.UUCP> gulik at motcid.UUCP (Gregory Gulik) writes:
>
>I've seen several mentions of an undocemented priority field
>in the /etc/passwd in System V.
>
>Does anyone have any information about this?

If the GCOS field starts with "pri=number" the login shell is started with
number as it's nice value.  The higher the number the lower the priority
of the process.  You can give a negative number to give the process a 
higher priority.

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