From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Jul 13 20:10:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3942F37B405 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 20:10:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6E3A2O15995; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 20:10:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Received: from mail.tgd.net (rand.tgd.net [64.81.67.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CA93237B401 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 20:05:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sean@rand.tgd.net) Received: (qmail 31796 invoked from network); 14 Jul 2001 03:05:53 -0000 Received: from dsl081-067-239.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net (64.81.67.239) by rand.tgd.net with QMQP; 14 Jul 2001 03:05:53 -0000 Message-Id: <20010714030548.72991.qmail@wheel.tgd.net> Date: 14 Jul 2001 03:05:48 -0000 From: Sean Chittenden Reply-To: Sean Chittenden To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: sean@chittenden.org X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.113 Subject: docs/28958: nice(1) documentation incorrect Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >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