Programmer's Reference
These messages are sent to the Processor global variable.
The following instance methods pertain to
ProcessScheduler:
- activePriority
- Answers the priority of the current active process in the system.
- activeProcess
- Answers the current active process in the system.
- highIOPriority
- Answers the priority of the process monitoring the local network
devices.
- lowIOPriority
- Answers the usual priority for input/output processes.
- signal:atTime:
- Informs the system that it should signal a semaphore at the resumption
time, specified in milliseconds since midnight.
- systemBackgroundPriority
- Answers the priority of a system background process.
- timingPriority
- Answers the priority of the process monitoring the real-time clock.
- userBackgroundPriority
- Answers the priority of a user background process.
- userInterruptPriority
- Answers the priority of any process forked by the user interface that
should be run immediately.
- userSchedulingPriority
- Answers the priority of the user interface process; also the default
priority for any process forked by the user interface process.
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