Date: 14 Jul 2001 03:05:48 -0000 From: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: sean@chittenden.org Subject: docs/28958: nice(1) documentation incorrect Message-ID: <20010714030548.72991.qmail@wheel.tgd.net>
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>Number: 28958 >Category: docs >Synopsis: nice(1) documentation incorrect >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Jul 13 20:10:02 PDT 2001 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Sean Chittenden >Release: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD wheel.tgd.net 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #0: Wed Jul 11 12:12:05 PDT 2001 sean@wheel.tgd.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/WHEEL i386 >Description: The nice(1) man page seems to give incorrect usage of the command. nice --20 doesn't yield a priority of -20 (gives error actually). nice -20 give a niceness of -20. >How-To-Repeat: nice --20 date >Fix: Negative numbers are expressed as -number. Positive numbers are expressed as +number (in Examples:) nice -16 date I'd like to also see an example of a nice +20 command.... nice +20 make Execute command `make` at priority +20 so that normal user operations aren't disturbed as much. Maybe the `make` command should be replaced with setiathome or rc5 just to drive the point home. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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