[maemo-developers] Default nice value setting

From: Frantisek Dufka dufkaf at seznam.cz
Date: Wed Jun 17 12:03:32 EEST 2009
Henrik Hedberg wrote:
>     If it is really crucial for the application to have higher priority, 
> maybe it could be installed as setuid root. In that way, it could first 
> set priority from 0 to -1, and then drop the privileges.

Or postinstall script could add some helper to sudoers which could raise 
priority when started from inside the application. I think Vagalume uses 
this trick.
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