On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Since linux-2.6.25 CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability is not required to set > IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE. > > Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@xxxxxxx> > > --- > man2/ioprio_set.2 | 7 ++++--- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > Index: b/man2/ioprio_set.2 > =================================================================== > --- a/man2/ioprio_set.2 > +++ b/man2/ioprio_set.2 > @@ -293,11 +293,12 @@ capability can change the priority of an > .B "What is the desired priority" > Attempts to set very high priorities > .RB ( IOPRIO_CLASS_RT ) > -or very low ones > -.RB ( IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE ) > require the > .B CAP_SYS_ADMIN > -capability. > +capability. Kernel versions till 2.6.24 require > +.B CAP_SYS_ADMIN > +capability even to set very low priority > +.RB ( IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE ). Hi Nikanth, Thanks for this! I'll reword this as == Attempts to set very high priorities .RB ( IOPRIO_CLASS_RT ) require the .B CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability. Kernel versions up to 2.6.24 also required B CAP_SYS_ADMIN to set very low priority .RB ( IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE ), but since Linux 2.6.24 this is no longer required. == Okay? The change will be in man-pages-3.04. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
