setpriority

OpenTuring

setpriorityprocedure

Syntax   setpriority ( p : nat )

Description   The setpriority procedure is used to set the priority of a process in a concurrent program. This priority cannot be counted on to guarantee critical access to shared variables. A smaller value of p means increased speed. The argument to setpriority may be limited to the range 0 to 2**15 - 1.

See also   getpriority, fork and monitor.

See also predefined unit Concurrency.