[Bug 229632] Re: ntpd should run niced

[nutznboltz]

I thought it might be because the setpriority() call was tried after
permissions were dropped but running as UID 0 doesn't change the
"niceness" as seen in ps output


$ (ps alx | head -1) ; (ps alx | grep ntpd) | grep -v grep
F   UID   PID  PPID PRI  NI    VSZ   RSS WCHAN  STAT TTY        TIME COMMAND
5     0 14085     1  20   0  32404  1976 poll_s Ss   ?          0:00 /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -g -N -c /var/lib/ntp/ntp.conf.dhcp

UID = 0, PRI = 20, NI = 0

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  ntpd should run niced

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