Index: trunk/Ohana/src/opihi/pantasks/LocalJob.c
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--- trunk/Ohana/src/opihi/pantasks/LocalJob.c	(revision 23530)
+++ trunk/Ohana/src/opihi/pantasks/LocalJob.c	(revision 32632)
@@ -161,4 +161,14 @@
   if (VerboseMode()) gprint (GP_ERR, "local job launched\n");
 
+  /* set nice level for the child process -- maybe I should not exit here... */
+  if (job[0].priority) {
+      status = setpriority (PRIO_PROCESS, pid, job[0].priority);
+      if (status == -1) {
+	  gprint (GP_ERR, "error setting priority\n");
+	  perror ("setpriority: ");
+	  exit (2);
+      }
+  }
+
   /* close the other ends of the pipes */
   close (stdout_fd[1]); stdout_fd[1] = 0;