Re: Pid or not pid

[Richard Coleman <coleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Some of the code in execcmd() is getting executed in the parent rather
> than the child, presumably since the last rearrangement... in
> particular, nice(5) is getting called if fork() returned a non-zero
> pid, i.e. in the parent (line 1350 of exec.c).  This means each time a
> background process is forked, the parent shell has a lower priority.
> This may be a good way to deal with process hogs, but I don't think
> it's what's intended.

err...  No I didn't intend that.  But maybe we should leave it
as an option :-)

rc