[337] Add logic to run child processes nicer than parent

[ionphractal]

This PR is related to cloudfoundry/bosh-agent#337 but the logic resides in bosh-utils.

@rkoster
I would still need help with how to write the tests. What would need to be done?

Btw adding it to the bosh-agent would then just look like this? https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-agent/compare/main...ionphractal:bosh-agent:337-nice-child-scripts?expand=1

[rkoster]

Thanks for picking this back up. With regards to testing, given that all logic sits in an external library, it would be best to only add an integration test which would write out a bash script in a temporary file and execute it once without the flag and once with the flag. The bash script could echo its own nice level.

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[Alphasite]

Is there perhaps a better name for this field indicating what nicer means? From skimming the linked issue (and the comment!) but it would not be obvious to me from the method name here.

Maybe something like: “ReducePriority” or “SpawnWithLowerPriority” or something like that? I don’t have a great suggestion. I’m sure there’s a standard name for this thing but I can’t remember off the top of my head what it should be.

[aramprice]

@ionphractal - are you still working on this or shall we close it?

[ionphractal]

@ionphractal - are you still working on this or shall we close it?

yes, will rename it. I'm sorry, I got a lot going on lately...

[beyhan]

@ionphractal we converted this one to draft to not having it on our project board but we will take it again in when it is ready for review.