portmaster patch, nice -> renice

[Doug Barton]

On 4/12/2011 1:39 AM, J. Hellenthal wrote:
>
> Hi Doug,
>
> Not that this is much a improvement but thought youd like to be informed
> of it. I usually try to refrain whenever possible from calling utilities
> like nice(1) or renice(1)  and let processes inherit their niceness be
> inherited from the parent process. This patch does that very thing for
> portmaster.

Thank you for your suggestion, however at this point it's only the make 
processes (which can often run for extended periods) that I want 
subjected to giving up their priority. The rest of the script should be 
run at the defaults. Users who want the behavior you describe can run 
nice in the shell.


Doug

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