From 0fdbc1eb4a5c016543c000ca6abbf5a8fe027f5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:36:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Modified discussion of privileges; added pointer to
 sched_setscheduler.2 for a discussion of privilegs and resource limits.

---
 man2/sched_setparam.2 | 19 +++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man2/sched_setparam.2 b/man2/sched_setparam.2
index 6a9eab2d2..adda4b099 100644
--- a/man2/sched_setparam.2
+++ b/man2/sched_setparam.2
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\"            revision
 .\" Modified 2004-05-27 by Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
 .\"
-.TH SCHED_SETPARAM 2 2004-05-27 "Linux 2.6.6" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH SCHED_SETPARAM 2 2005-07-28 "Linux 2.6.12" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 sched_setparam, sched_getparam \- set and get scheduling parameters
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -70,6 +70,10 @@ process. The parameter \fIp->sched_priority\fR must lie within the
 range given by \fBsched_get_priority_min\fR and
 \fBsched_get_priority_max\fR.
 
+For a discussion of the privileges and resource limits related to 
+scheduling priority and policy, see
+.BR sched_setscheduler (2).
+
 POSIX systems on which
 .B sched_setparam
 and
@@ -94,15 +98,10 @@ The parameter \fIp\fR does not make sense for the current
 scheduling policy.
 .TP
 .B EPERM
-The calling process does not have appropriate privileges.
-A process calling
-.BR sched_setparam
-needs an effective user ID equal to the user ID or effective user ID
-of the process identified by
-.IR pid ,
-or (Linux) it must have the
-CAP_SYS_NICE
-capability.
+The calling process does not have appropriate privileges
+(Linux: does not have the
+.B CAP_SYS_NICE
+capability).
 .TP
 .B ESRCH
 The process whose ID is \fIpid\fR could not be found.