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Glossary
Setting process priority
Operating system processes
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The priority of the child process can be set by storing one of the below symbols in the
priority
slot of a
process
tuple:
•
+lowest-priority+
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+low-priority+
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+normal-priority+
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+high-priority+
•
+highest-priority+
The default value is
f
, which denotes that the child process should inherit the current process priority.