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`renice`: Add option `--priority`

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli

Research direction

Locate the renice command and its argument parser, then inspect how scheduling priority is currently handled. Add the requested --priority behavior and verify the help text, absolute-priority semantics, and default behavior using the renice command's available tests or checks.

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Description

good first issue renice
       --priority priority
           Specify an absolute scheduling priority. Priority is set to the given value. This is
           the default, when no option is specified.
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Rust
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12
Forks
2
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