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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Kwatch: kernel watchpoints using CPU debug registers
    On 2/7/07, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
    > I wonder where this convention of using lower numbers to indicate higher
    > priorities comes from... It seems to be quite prevalent even though it's
    > obviously backwards.

    I agree but at least in the case of 'nice' it works in the sense that
    the value increases with increasing niceness. Done the other way,
    they would have to call it 'mean,' then someone would wonder why 'mean
    10 20' prints 'No such file or directory' instead of '15'...

    Bob
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