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SubjectRe: Is a process with a priority of 0 legal ?
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 DJBARROW@de.ibm.com wrote:

> If the weight & priority of all runnable processes is 0 then the
> recalculate with recalculate p->counter=0 for all runnable
> processes, & the code will go into a tight loop between the
> goodness calculation & recalculate.

p->priority can never become 0. The minimum value allowed
is 1.

The only way the value could become 0 is when something
scribbles all over memory (and in that case I'd prefer a
hang to possible data corruption).

regards,

Rik
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