From 5156840aa4cfa4421ae75ade9d041db29a5fa0c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Francesco Cosoleto Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:10:19 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- sys-utils/renice.1 | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/sys-utils/renice.1 b/sys-utils/renice.1 index 41ff3ec2..a06f5499 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 -- 2.39.5