Re: [Mingw-users] process priority and niceness

[John R. <web...@te...>]

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Quoting John Ratliff <web...@te...>:
>
>
>   
>> Here's the command I tried:
>>
>> start /LOW oggenc2.exe -Q -b 96 -o audio.ogg audio.pcm
>>
>>     
>
> Try:
>
> start //LOW oggenc2.exe -Q -b 96 -o audio.oog audio.pcm
>
> The /LOW is will be converted to a file specification unless you use 
> the double // notation where MSYS will remove one / before sending it 
> to the process.
>
> The /bin/start command is a script that executes ``cmd //c start "$@"'' 
> for convenience.  You can even do ``start cmd'' to open a windows 
> console with the existing environment.

Thanks everyone for your assistance.

Using two slashes works. For some reason, it seems to ignore the 
environment, so I had to use full path to the binary. My new problem is 
that start doesn't wait for anything to finish, so my script continues 
before it's supposed to (or can). I tried adding //WAIT, but it didn't.

I found an alternative. I read something in msdn that said process class 
is inherited. So if I set the priority of sh.exe to LOW, everything 
launched from it also starts in low priority.

So glad I can (once more) be rid of cygwin.

Thanks again,

--John Ratliff