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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-07-02 00:36:43 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-07-02 00:36:43 +0200 |
| commit | b8bc577b896e4db7ce0f8f1bdb6f9eb776b79f1a (patch) | |
| tree | d0bedae336773ab23678f459fd4df59a658988a4 | |
| parent | 653c1fe2e2fa0a222eba8951cdfb7644724c73c6 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-b8bc577b896e4db7ce0f8f1bdb6f9eb776b79f1a.tar.gz | |
getpriority.2: Clarify equivalence between lower nice value and higher priority
Reported-by: Robin Kuzmin <kuzmin.robin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/getpriority.2 | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man2/getpriority.2 b/man2/getpriority.2 index ecbef057fb..619956f5c3 100644 --- a/man2/getpriority.2 +++ b/man2/getpriority.2 @@ -90,11 +90,13 @@ A zero value for .I who denotes (respectively) the calling process, the process group of the calling process, or the real user ID of the calling process. + The .I prio argument is a value in the range \-20 to 19 (but see NOTES below). +with \-20 being the highest priority and 19 being the lowest priority. The default priority is 0; -lower priorities cause more favorable scheduling. +lower values give a process a higher scheduling priority. The .BR getpriority () @@ -140,7 +142,8 @@ In addition to the errors indicated above, may fail if: .TP .B EACCES -The caller attempted to lower a process priority, but did not +The caller attempted to set a lower nice value +(i.e., a higher process priority), but did not have the required privilege (on Linux: did not have the .B CAP_SYS_NICE capability). |