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| author | Rik van Riel | 2013-12-06 22:07:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2013-12-10 11:33:54 +0100 |
| commit | ab0e0fa7a45bccf8304edcb2a904f30a4f3a48b1 (patch) | |
| tree | 662bff4b10bd7a55a3b9bc3c78c811684358d919 /schedutils | |
| parent | cal: use month contents structure for --year printing (diff) | |
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taskset: fix PERMISSIONS section of taskset man page
A user is always allowed to change the CPU affinity of his or her
own processes. CAP_SYS_NICE is only required to change the affinity
of another user's process.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'schedutils')
| -rw-r--r-- | schedutils/taskset.1 | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/schedutils/taskset.1 b/schedutils/taskset.1 index ade202b39..fb5738c35 100644 --- a/schedutils/taskset.1 +++ b/schedutils/taskset.1 @@ -102,10 +102,11 @@ Or set it: .B taskset \-p .I mask pid .SH PERMISSIONS +A user can change the CPU affinity of a process belonging to the same user. A user must possess .B CAP_SYS_NICE -to change the CPU affinity of a process. Any user can retrieve the affinity -mask. +to change the CPU affinity of a process belonging to another user. +A user can retrieve the affinity mask of any process. .SH AUTHOR Written by Robert M. Love. .SH COPYRIGHT |