There are some flaws with a strict priority system like this. Say an
application program has locked a file that a server process needs. The
application will never get any cpu time and will never unlock the file. Thus
it is effectivly preventing the higher priority server process from running.
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|came to be, how it begun \ all alone in the family of the sun |
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