Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161452AbXBGWJI (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Feb 2007 17:09:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422787AbXBGWJI (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Feb 2007 17:09:08 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.172]:29389 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161452AbXBGWJG (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Feb 2007 17:09:06 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=gwBcTUMmrQU5EID4ZLCREEnL8QGCHWaENxxwXFp2H8IGQlMyCceqf+QkSJlqDFW/mh2cQY58kleFxcIHqFyprrzqqbONrXI+VZXEAefgyi0Q+UXewU7yIxTuMr3Gvip2AbIhezN4xaxWwYgSDM/w+17eQGKkdsPMqv3DVKWIB+I= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 17:08:51 -0500 From: "Bob Copeland" To: "Alan Stern" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kwatch: kernel watchpoints using CPU debug registers Cc: "Roland McGrath" , "Prasanna S Panchamukhi" , "Kernel development list" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070207025008.1B11118005D@magilla.sf.frob.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 696adb153d720203 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 750 Lines: 16 On 2/7/07, Alan Stern 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/