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Bug 132470
Wrong information in manual page for 'renice'
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renice.8 manpage
renice.8 (text/plain), 4.18 KB, created by
Karl Eichwalder
on 2005-11-21 14:26:31 UTC
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>.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993 >.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. >.\" >.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without >.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions >.\" are met: >.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright >.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. >.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright >.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the >.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. >.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software >.\" must display the following acknowledgement: >.\" This product includes software developed by the University of >.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. >.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors >.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software >.\" without specific prior written permission. >.\" >.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND >.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE >.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE >.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE >.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL >.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS >.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) >.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT >.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY >.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF >.\" SUCH DAMAGE. >.\" >.\" @(#)renice.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93 >.\" >.Dd June 9, 1993 >.Dt RENICE 8 >.Os BSD 4 >.Sh NAME >.Nm renice >.Nd alter priority of running processes >.Sh SYNOPSIS >.Nm renice >.Ar priority >.Oo >.Op Fl p >.Ar pid ... >.Oc >.Oo >.Op Fl g >.Ar pgrp ... >.Oc >.Oo >.Op Fl u >.Ar user ... >.Oc >.Sh DESCRIPTION >.Nm Renice >alters the >scheduling priority of one or more running processes. >The following >.Ar who >parameters are interpreted as process ID's, process group >ID's, or user names. >.Nm Renice Ns 'ing >a process group causes all processes in the process group >to have their scheduling priority altered. >.Nm Renice Ns 'ing >a user causes all processes owned by the user to have >their scheduling priority altered. >By default, the processes to be affected are specified by >their process ID's. >.Pp >Options supported by >.Nm renice : >.Bl -tag -width Ds >.It Fl g >Force >.Ar who >parameters to be interpreted as process group ID's. >.It Fl u >Force the >.Ar who >parameters to be interpreted as user names. >.It Fl p >Resets the >.Ar who >interpretation to be (the default) process ID's. >.El >.Pp >For example, >.Bd -literal -offset >renice +1 987 -u daemon root -p 32 >.Ed >.Pp >would change the priority of process ID's 987 and 32, and >all processes owned by users daemon and root. >.Pp >Users other than the super-user may only alter the priority of >processes they own, >and can only monotonically increase their ``nice value'' >within the range 0 to >.Dv PRIO_MAX >(20). >(This prevents overriding administrative fiats.) >The super-user >may alter the priority of any process >and set the priority to any value in the range >.Dv PRIO_MIN >(\-20) >to >.Dv PRIO_MAX . >Useful priorities are: >20 (the affected processes will run only when nothing else >in the system wants to), >0 (the ``base'' scheduling priority), >anything negative (to make things go very fast). >.Sh FILES >.Bl -tag -width /etc/passwd -compact >.It Pa /etc/passwd >to map user names to user ID's >.El >.Sh SEE ALSO >.Xr getpriority 2 , >.Xr setpriority 2 >.Sh BUGS >Non super-users can not increase scheduling priorities of their own processes, >even if they were the ones that decreased the priorities in the first place. >.br >The Linux kernel (at least version 2.0.0) and linux libc (at least >version 5.2.18) does not agree entirely on what the specifics of the >systemcall interface to set nice values is. Thus causes renice to >report bogus previous nice values. >.Sh HISTORY >The >.Nm >command appeared in >.Bx 4.0 .
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