Re: is operating system always to blame, was: Ready to scrap

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:53 AM 07/24/2000, you wrote:
>      Had an operator change a jobpty to 1 once. System became
>      non-responsive, esentially locked until the job finished. Should
>      the OS be considered at fault for accepting a valid value that
>      produced undesired results? I think not.

Just playing play devil's advocate here ...

The operating system ALLOWED the job priority to be changed to a level that 
was not reasonable.

I would like to see a warning indicating the ramifications of making such a 
change.  Heck, even NT warns you when you try to change a processes 
priority in task manager.

david

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