Re: [patch] nice.2: wfix

[Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

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Hi glibc developers,

On 11/2/22 02:50, i+linux@1a-insec.net wrote:
> nice(2) in glibc uses `setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, x)`. I think "thread" means 
> pthread more, so "process" is the better word here.
> 
> The patch is below:
> 
> 
>  From 835c33dbc72abec02d49a5ac6b1b16e4d39a599b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Locria Cyber <74560659+locriacyber@users.noreply.github.com>
> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2022 06:10:16 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] nice.2 tfix
> Signed-off-by: Locria Cyber <i+linux@1a.insec.net>

I never used this syscall.  Could any of you please review this patch?

Cheers,

Alex

> 
> ---
>   man2/nice.2 | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man2/nice.2 b/man2/nice.2
> index f4e2406..2ecd743 100644
> --- a/man2/nice.2
> +++ b/man2/nice.2
> @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
>   .BR nice ()
>   adds
>   .I inc
> -to the nice value for the calling thread.
> +to the nice value for the calling process.
>   (A higher nice value means a lower priority.)
>   .PP
>   The range of the nice value is +19 (low priority) to \-20 (high priority).

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