Hi, The patch bellow replaces in watchdog(8), the setpriority(2) + getpid(2) idiom with a single setpriority(2) with who = 0.
Index: usr.sbin/watchdogd/watchdogd.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/watchdogd/watchdogd.c,v retrieving revision 1.15 diff -u -p -r1.15 watchdogd.c --- usr.sbin/watchdogd/watchdogd.c 16 Jan 2015 06:40:22 -0000 1.15 +++ usr.sbin/watchdogd/watchdogd.c 7 Sep 2016 21:55:36 -0000 @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) (void)setrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, &rlim); (void)mlockall(MCL_CURRENT | MCL_FUTURE); - setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, getpid(), -5); + setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0, -5); signal(SIGTERM, sighdlr);