idprio(1) broken in recent -current

[Robert Watson]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> Following my latest -current update (to 17th August), setiathome stopped 
> working and started complaining about missing heartbeats. After rebuilding 
> all the ports and a bit of hair removal, I tracked the problem to the 
> 'idprio' command in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/boinc - without that, all works 
> fine.  If I include that, boinc_client stops sending heartbeat messages.
>
> This was working correctly in late June.
>
> Has anyone else seen anything similar?

When I run "idprio 20 echo hi", it seems to execute per normal as root, and 
not at all as an unprivileged user, which I think is the desired symptom of 
using it.  I've not tried checking that things execute occasionally with a 
mostly busy system, so could you be more specific about what you're seeing? 
If you're running things with idprio, is it definitely the case that your 
system is sometimes idle allowing the program to run once in a while?

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge