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| author | Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> | 2001-06-05 06:21:21 +0000 |
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| committer | Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> | 2001-06-05 06:21:21 +0000 |
| commit | 6a7a8b22f64f780e8749edca9f998ebba6fdef4f (patch) | |
| tree | 7320f66735aee7c9eae6c76dd21f5315e3e518c0 /manual/resource.texi | |
| parent | 17827c3a399d597c020b87b786e0413075e72162 (diff) | |
Update.
2001-06-05 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
* manual/libm-err-tab.pl (parse_ulps): Fix typo.
2001-06-04 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* sysdeps/alpha/elf/start.S: Add .type for the entry point.
* sysdeps/arm/elf/start.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/hppa/elf/start.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/m68k/elf/start.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/mips/elf/start.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/ia64/elf/start.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/sh/elf/start.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/s390/s390-32/elf/start.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/s390/s390-64/elf/start.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/cris/elf/start.S: Likewise.
2001-06-04 Bruce Mitchener <bruce@cubik.org>
* manual/resource.texi: Correct setpriority/nice documentation.
* sysdeps/unix/nice.c: Correct nice() implementation.
Diffstat (limited to 'manual/resource.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/resource.texi | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/manual/resource.texi b/manual/resource.texi index da30d7cbda..3beb939006 100644 --- a/manual/resource.texi +++ b/manual/resource.texi @@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@ afterward as the criterion for failure. Set the nice value of a set of processes to @var{niceval}; @var{class} and @var{id} specify which ones (see below). -The return value is the nice value on success, and @code{-1} on +The return value is @code{0} on success, and @code{-1} on failure. The following @code{errno} error condition are possible for this function: @@ -1225,7 +1225,10 @@ process group, or its owner (real uid), according to @var{class}. @comment BSD @deftypefun int nice (int @var{increment}) Increment the nice value of the calling process by @var{increment}. -The return value is the same as for @code{setpriority}. +The return value is the new nice value on success, and @code{-1} on +failure. In the case of failure, @code{errno} will be set to the +same values as for @code{setpriority}. + Here is an equivalent definition of @code{nice}: @@ -1233,8 +1236,12 @@ Here is an equivalent definition of @code{nice}: int nice (int increment) @{ - int old = getpriority (PRIO_PROCESS, 0); - return setpriority (PRIO_PROCESS, 0, old + increment); + int result, old = getpriority (PRIO_PROCESS, 0); + result = setpriority (PRIO_PROCESS, 0, old + increment); + if (result != -1) + return old + increment; + else + return -1; @} @end smallexample @end deftypefun |