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Re: at jobs are always run with nice 0
In message <200105052300.f45N01D13521@baldrick.d1906.inka.de>
so spake Hans-Guenter Weigand (hgw):
> at(1) jobs are always run with nice 0, because setusercontext(3)
> overwrites the priority value set by nice(3). I wonder how the
> priority can be lowered while running with the effective uid of
> a user != root. I thought this is not possible.
The priority is increased when the uid == 0 is why it is possible.
That patch looks reasonable -- I'll commit it or something similar.
- todd