Hi, The nice() code glibc seems to have changed a lot in the glibc since these two bugs have been reported. Could you (or somebody from debian-hurd), please give a try to see if the problem is still there? Thanks, Aurelien -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' aurel32@debian.org | aurelien@aurel32.net `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net