Priority changing

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Friday, July 25, 2003 08:37:34 AM +0200 "Andreas, Fredriksson" 
<andreas.fredriksson at dice.se> wrote:

> No the priority daemon is needed to increase priorities on unix only,
> windows processes can change their priority at will. There hasn't been
> any demand for this feature on windows AFAIK so it will probably only
> be a Linux thing.

Is priority on Linux set per-thread or per-process? Couldn't you spawn a 
separate niced thread for map loading and then continue from the un-niced 
thread when the loading is complete? That would eliminate the need for the 
daemon.