Hi Dan, On 6/11/20 7:13 AM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: > Anyone can raise the niceness value. Only lowering requires CAP_SYS_NICE. > > $ nice -n +2 nice > 2 > $ nice -n -2 nice > nice: cannot set niceness: Permission denied > 0 > $ sudo nice -n -2 nice > -2 > > Signed-off-by: Dan Kenigsberg <danken@xxxxxxxxxx> As I'm sure you're aware, the meaning of the nice value is always a source of confusion! In writing the original text, my intent was that the reader would understand that [higher nice value] == [more negative nice value], but obviously that that could be ambiguous. > --- > man7/capabilities.7 | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/man7/capabilities.7 b/man7/capabilities.7 > index 6254c0ac0..64a9f8e34 100644 > --- a/man7/capabilities.7 > +++ b/man7/capabilities.7 > @@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ drop capabilities from the system-wide capability > bounding set. > .PD 0 > .RS > .IP * 2 > -Raise process nice value > +Lower process nice value > .RB ( nice (2), > .BR setpriority (2)) > and change the nice value for arbitrary processes; I instead applied a differnt patch, as below. I hope it works for you. Cheers, Michael diff --git a/man7/capabilities.7 b/man7/capabilities.7 index 8f212bead..bf9949ad2 100644 --- a/man7/capabilities.7 +++ b/man7/capabilities.7 @@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ drop capabilities from the system-wide capability bounding set. .PD 0 .RS .IP * 2 -Raise process nice value +Give process a higher (i.e., more negative) nice value .RB ( nice (2), .BR setpriority (2)) and change the nice value for arbitrary processes; -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
