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| author |   millert <millert@openbsd.org> | 2003-05-19 19:37:28 +0000 |
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| committer | millert <millert@openbsd.org> | 2003-05-19 19:37:28 +0000 |
| commit | 6dcab1350eb4b889a08a835d2621f91a537f4b0f (patch) | |
| tree | 88daf2e80fea603e6f3ed0df32a4ef6f243d10b3 /lib/libc | |
| parent | Add the generated files as a dependency for the 'all' target. (diff) | |
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Explicitly state that priority values outside the range -20 to 20 are
truncated to the appropriate limit.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/gen/nice.3 | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/getpriority.2 | 7 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/nice.3 b/lib/libc/gen/nice.3 index 41bfa6e979f..7082b9e997c 100644 --- a/lib/libc/gen/nice.3 +++ b/lib/libc/gen/nice.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: nice.3,v 1.12 2002/06/03 22:32:04 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: nice.3,v 1.13 2003/05/19 19:37:28 millert Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ to the scheduling priority of the invoking process. .Fa incr is an integer such that the resulting scheduling priority is within the range \-20 to 20. +Priority values outside this range are truncated to the appropriate limit. The default priority is 0; lower priorities cause more favorable scheduling. Only the superuser may lower priorities. .Pp diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/getpriority.2 b/lib/libc/sys/getpriority.2 index b840d35b1c0..0382dba49b0 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/getpriority.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/getpriority.2 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: getpriority.2,v 1.7 2000/10/18 05:12:09 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: getpriority.2,v 1.8 2003/05/19 19:37:28 millert Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: getpriority.2,v 1.4 1995/02/27 12:33:15 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 @@ -80,8 +80,7 @@ A zero value of denotes the current process, process group, or user. .Fa prio is a value in the range \-20 to 20. -The default priority is 0; -lower priorities cause more favorable scheduling. +The default priority is 0; lower priorities cause more favorable scheduling. .Pp The .Fn getpriority @@ -91,6 +90,8 @@ The .Fn setpriority call sets the priorities of all of the specified processes to the specified value. +Priority values outside the range \-20 to 20 are truncated to the +appropriate limit. Only the superuser may lower priorities. .Sh RETURN VALUES Since |