[bf1942] Priority changing

[ScratchMonkey]

--On Friday, July 25, 2003 11:18:28 PM +0200 "Andreas, Fredriksson" 
<andreas.fredriksson at dice.se> wrote:

> the server restarts itself via exec() at map changes (due a to legacy
> win32 issue and the fact that we build from the same sources), so this
> will not work.

Does the map loading (and hence priority switch) happen as the program 
starts or exits? If when it starts, then one would spawn the niced thread 
shortly after startup, and block for it to complete the map load. It 
doesn't matter that there's an exec at map changes. (Unless I misunderstand 
the process.)

> Threading priorities are also known to be flaky under
> Linux :-(

OTOH, that's a pretty good reason to avoid my solution. :(