The {get,set}priority man pages currently lists the process's priority
range as being from 40..1 however it should be 40..0 as 0 would be for
a nice of -20.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Clayton <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Perhaps the 40 should be 39 as the kernel seems to limit the nice range
from -20 to 19 in kernel/sched/core.c::set_user_nice().
man2/getpriority.2 | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/man2/getpriority.2 b/man2/getpriority.2
index b39bdcf..066cf75 100644
--- a/man2/getpriority.2
+++ b/man2/getpriority.2
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ The actual priority range varies between kernel versions.
Linux before 1.3.36 had \-infinity..15.
Since kernel 1.3.43, Linux has the range \-20..19.
Within the kernel, nice values are actually represented
-using the corresponding range 40..1
+using the corresponding range 40..0
(since negative numbers are error codes) and these are the values
employed by the
.BR setpriority ()
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1.8.5.3
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