Non-root tasks can raise nice priority on systems running Linux 2.6.12 or higher if the nice resource limit is set. Signed-off-by: Francesco Cosoleto <cosoleto@xxxxxxxxx> --- sys-utils/renice.1 | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/sys-utils/renice.1 b/sys-utils/renice.1 index 6885454..aa8843d 100644 --- a/sys-utils/renice.1 +++ b/sys-utils/renice.1 @@ -107,11 +107,11 @@ all processes owned by users daemon and root. .Pp Users other than the super-user may only alter the priority of processes they own, -and can only monotonically increase their ``nice value'' +and can only monotonically increase their ``nice value'' (for security reasons) within the range 0 to .Dv PRIO_MAX -(20). -(This prevents overriding administrative fiats.) +(20), +unless a nice resource limit is set (Linux 2.6.12 and higher). The super-user may alter the priority of any process and set the priority to any value in the range -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
