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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!darwin.sura.net!ms!ar.cs.wm.edu!djryan From: djryan@ar.cs.wm.edu (David J. Ryan) Subject: unix process control Message-ID: <1994Apr27.194302.12924@cs.wm.edu> Sender: news@cs.wm.edu (News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: ar.cs.wm.edu Organization: College of William & Mary, founded 1693 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 19:43:02 GMT Lines: 14 I don't know if this is the correct forum for this, but... If I have three processes running on a machine - a sun workstation - can I dictate which one gets to run? The processes communicate between each other via pipes; I want one process to get the cpu at regular intervals (perhaps every 0.01 seconds) while the others hold. The others would get the cpu otherwise. Using the sleep command won't work because it is in seconds. Looping to kill time won't work since that obviously still uses the cpu. Any suggestions? Thanks, Dave djryan@cs.wm.edu