02-10-2012
I agree with all said....
If the application was crashing (and not effecting the host or any other apps running); and you did not have explicit authority to change the app; then you were "crossing the line" to fix the app without authority.
On the other hand, the situation gets more complex if you have responsibility for the host and the host or other apps are being effected by the crashing app.
What was the case here?
Was this a single application server? Or are there multiple users with apps under their authority?
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nice(3) Library Functions Manual nice(3)
Name
nice - set program priority
Syntax
int nice(incr)
int incr;
Description
The scheduling priority of the process is augmented by incr. Positive priorities get less service than normal. Priority 10 is recommended
to users who wish to execute long-running programs without flack from the administration.
Negative increments are ignored except on behalf of the super-user. The priority is limited to the range -20 (most urgent) to 20 (least).
The priority of a process is passed to a child process by For a privileged process to return to normal priority from an unknown state,
should be called successively with arguments -40 (goes to priority -20 because of truncation), 20 (to get to 0), then 0 (to maintain com-
patibility with previous versions of this call).
Environment
In any mode, nice returns -1 and sets on an error. On success, the return value depends on the mode in which your program was compiled.
In POSIX or System V mode, it is the new priority; otherwise, it is zero. Note that, in POSIX and System V mode, -1 can indicate either
success or failure; must be used to determine which.
See Also
nice(1), fork(2), setpriority(2), renice(8)
nice(3)