Be sure you have read, or at least skimmed, Chapters 7 through 9 of the textbook.
Answer the following questions. You may write out your answers by hand and scan them, or you may use a word processor or other program, but please turn in a PDF or plain text file. (No links to shared files on Google Drive please, and no word-processor files.) Turn it in by putting it in your course “TurnIn” folder on Google Drive. Please be sure to include your name somewhere in the file, so when I print it for grading I know whose work it is. (In the pledge is fine.)
info coreutils 'nice invocation'
It seems to have something to do with letting users change priorities for their processes. How does a user run a process with higher priority? with lower priority? or does it depend in part on the user? What does the O/S do with what the user says in this command, or does that also depend on -- something?
(I'm looking for something fairly high-level here, in keeping with the number of points. If you're not sure you've told me enough, feel free to ask!)
Include with your assignment the following information.
For programming assignments, please put it a separate file. (I strongly prefer plain text, but if you insist you can put it in a PDF -- just no word-processor documents or Google Drive links please.) For written assignments, please put it in your main document.
This should include the Honor Code pledge, or just the word “pledged”, plus at least one of the following about collaboration and help (as many as apply). Text in italics is explanatory or something for you to fill in; you don't need to repeat it!
This should be a brief essay (a sentence or two is fine, though you can write as much as you like) telling me what if anything you think you learned from the assignment, and what if anything you found interesting, difficult, or otherwise noteworthy.