Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:20:56 GMT From: Ighighi <ighighi@gmail.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/124469: incomplete nice(1) manpage Message-ID: <200806110920.m5B9KuPs039703@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200806110930.m5B9U1Ib011081@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 124469 >Category: docs >Synopsis: incomplete nice(1) manpage >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Jun 11 09:30:01 UTC 2008 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Ighighi >Release: 6.3-STABLE >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #0: Wed Jun 4 15:18:20 VET 2008 >Description: There's no mention of the range of available nice values... Not even a pointer to the nice(3) manpage to supplement it. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: I suggest adding this sentence present in NetBSD's nice(1): "The priority can be adjusted over a range of -20 (the highest) to 20 (the lowest)." See: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/nice/nice.1 Also, a pointer to nice(3) would be ok. We may also use renice(8) which is a lot more complete. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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