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| author | Francesco Cosoleto | 2010-11-24 23:10:19 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2010-11-30 12:28:17 +0100 |
| commit | 5156840aa4cfa4421ae75ade9d041db29a5fa0c6 (patch) | |
| tree | 6309d031a48b7f268b993fcf52c2d99e272490c3 /sys-utils/renice.1 | |
| parent | renice: reverse %s position in error messages (diff) | |
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renice: update man page (nice rlimit was added to kernel)
Non-root tasks can raise nice priority on systems running Linux 2.6.12 or higher
if the nice resource limit is set.
Signed-off-by: Francesco Cosoleto <cosoleto@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'sys-utils/renice.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/renice.1 | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/renice.1 b/sys-utils/renice.1 index 41ff3ec25..a06f54994 100644 --- a/sys-utils/renice.1 +++ b/sys-utils/renice.1 @@ -107,11 +107,11 @@ 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'' +and can only monotonically increase their ``nice value'' (for security reasons) within the range 0 to .Dv PRIO_MAX -(20). -(This prevents overriding administrative fiats.) +(20), +unless a nice resource limit is set (Linux 2.6.12 and higher). The super-user may alter the priority of any process and set the priority to any value in the range |