Theoretically I'd think you could do the same with niceness. Start a bunch of processes, have them wait on some condition, set their niceness to the value and f

Theoretically I'd think you could do the same with niceness. Start a bunch of processes, have them wait on some condition, set their niceness to the value and fire the condition. I'd assume the process with the highest niceness would run first, and as such would get to insert itself into some list first.