use Nice; # load the Nice.pm module tie $his_speed, 'Nice', getppid(); tie $my_speed, 'Nice', $$; ***** $speed = $his_speed; ***** $speed = (tied $his_speed)->FETCH(): ***** $myobj = tie $my_speed, 'Nice', $$; $speed = $my_speed; # through the implicit interface $speed = $myobj->FETCH(); # same thing, explicitly ***** package Nice; use Carp; # Propagates error messages nicely. use BSD::Resource; # Use these hooks into the OS. use strict; # Enforce some discipline on ourselves, use vars '$DEBUG'; # but exempt $DEBUG from discipline, ***** sub TIESCALAR { my $class = shift; my $pid = shift; $pid ||= $$; # arg of 0 defaults to my process if ($pid =~ /\D/) { carp "Nice::TIESCALAR got non-numeric pid $pid" if $^W; return undef; } unless (kill 0, $pid) { # EPERM or ERSCH, no doubt carp "Nice::TIESCALAR got bad pid $pid: $!" if $^W; return undef; } return bless \$pid, $class; } ***** $pid = $pid || $$; # set if not set ***** sub FETCH { my $self = shift; # ref to scalar confess "wrong type" unless ref $self; croak "too many arguments" if @_; my $nicety; local $! = 0; # preserve errno $nicety = getpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, $$self); if ($!) { croak "getpriority failed: $!" } return $nicety; } ***** sub STORE { my $self = shift; my $new_nicety = shift; confess "wrong type" unless ref $self; croak "too many arguments" if @_; if ($new_nicety PRIO_MAX) { carp sprintf "WARNING: priority %d greater than maximum system priority %d", $new_nicety, PRIO_MAX if $^W; $new_nicety = PRIO_MAX; } unless (defined setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, $$self, $new_nicety)) { confess "setpriority failed: $!"; } return $new_nicety; } ***** sub DESTROY { my $self = shift; confess "wrong type" unless ref $self; carp "[ Nice::DESTROY pid $$self ]" if $DEBUG; }