[coretasks] All privilege handling methods are now unthreaded and high priority
[coretasks] All privilege handling methods are now unthreaded and high priority

For reasoning see issue #293
This should theoretically eliminate race-condition-related problems in
privilege handling.

See also issue #365 and issue #519

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