Michael Kerrisk
def79251d4
credentials.7: SEE ALSO: add shadow(5)
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-12-05 12:28:21 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
540038a17d
nice.2: Move discussion of handling the -1 success return to RETURN VALUE
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This detail was rather hidden in NOTES. Also, rework the text
a little.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-12-05 12:13:33 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
226f6909f0
nice.2: CONFORMING TO: Remove an ancient SVr4 detail on errno values
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At this stage, vague details (when does EINVAL get returned?) of
ancient implementations are little more than noise in the page.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-12-05 12:13:33 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
32ff480294
nice.2: Rework discussion of nice() return value and standards conformance
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Make the text a little clearer. In particular, clarify that the
raw system call (still) returns 0 on success.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-12-05 12:13:33 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
52694f0979
nice.2: Add mention of RLIMIT_NICE
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-12-05 12:13:33 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
360c190092
signal.7: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-12-05 12:13:33 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
384c705b19
getrlimit.2: Refer to sched(7) in discussion of RLIMIT_RTPRIO and RLIMIT_RTTIME
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-12-05 12:13:33 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
a67b298f5c
getrlimit.2: SEE ALSO: add credentials(7)
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-12-05 12:13:33 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
dfc3c7dedc
getrlimit.2: refer to sched(7) in the discussion of RLIMIT_NICE
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-12-05 12:13:33 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
bbc069dd5b
getrlimit.2: Minor wording fix for RLIMIT_NICE
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-12-05 12:13:33 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
d17de8336c
getrlimit.2: Describe the range of the RLIMIT_NICE limit
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-12-05 12:13:33 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
b5bde13cbc
setsid.2: SEE ALSO: add sched(7)
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List sched(7), because setsid(2) is part of the machinery
of autogrouping.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-12-05 12:13:33 +01:00
Kees Cook
998f951bf8
bpf.2: tfix
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Changed to "will" instead of "with".
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-12-05 12:13:33 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
1af83f4a7a
nice.2: Warn that autogrouping voids the effect of 'nice' in many cases
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Refer the reader to sched(7) for the details.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-12-05 12:13:33 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
ccc127001c
getpriority.2: Warn that autogrouping voids the effect of 'nice' in many cases
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Refer the reader to sched(7) for the details.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-12-05 12:13:33 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
b7171b1495
sched.7: Clarify that autogroup defaults on in various distros
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-12-05 12:13:33 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
58543181f8
sched.7: Note command that can be used to modify the autogroup nice value
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-12-05 12:13:33 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
a695d35c98
sched.7: Improve section on nice value and group scheduling
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-30 18:30:54 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
4fbe161bf2
sched.7: Relocate discussion of group scheduling
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-30 18:30:54 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
7ef1473742
sched.7: Clarify details of autogroup nice value
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Also clarify its interactions with the thread nice value.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-30 18:30:36 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
c49631b7de
sched.7: srcfix: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-29 21:50:15 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
0cacdedace
sched.7: Further clarify scheduling policies for which autogroup applied
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Further clarify that autogroup groups only SCHED_OTHER/SCHED_NICE/
SCHED_IDLE processes.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-29 21:50:15 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
e92070f8cc
sched.7: Add a subsection on group scheduling
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-29 21:50:15 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
e9c1649aa7
sched.7: Tweak description of cgroups overriding autogroup
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-29 21:50:15 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
1dd83d2e8f
sched.7: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-29 21:50:15 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
58627ec0d8
sched.7: Note error that occurs when writing invalid value to /proc/PID/autogroup
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-29 21:50:15 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
626dca367b
sched.7: Further clarify details of group scheduling
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After comments by Mike Galbraith.
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-29 21:50:15 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
c11d067046
sched.7: wfix
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Reported-by: Afzal Mohammed <afzal.mohd.ma@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-29 21:50:15 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
45922aa8d3
sched.7: srcfix: add details to FIXME
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-29 21:50:15 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
ee1f3c18a2
sched.7: Rework discussion of autogroups
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-29 21:50:15 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
576b74eec2
sched.7: Rework discussion of autogroup nice value
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Remove the text saying that setting the autogroup nice value
always lowers the group's priority. That was actually a
bug introduced in Linux 4.7.
Also make it clearer that the autogroup nice value has the same
meaning as the nice value set by setpriority(2).
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-29 21:50:15 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
39b35179bc
proc.5: Add pointers to sched(7) for autogroup files
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sched(7) describes /proc/sys/kernel/sched_autogroup_enabled
and /proc/PID/autogroup.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-29 21:50:15 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
ed520068e7
sched.7: Document the autogroup feature
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-29 21:50:15 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
40fcb004f0
getpriority.2: The nice value supplied to setpriority() is clamped
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Note that the nice value supplied to setpriority() is clamped
to the permitted range.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-29 21:50:15 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
1dc3d91d7b
namespaces.7: srcfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-29 17:55:08 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
6ad8b4d00c
sched.7: Minor wording fix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-29 07:48:35 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
969b3dd60b
elf.5: Minor fixes
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-28 22:19:31 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
bdd5d782a1
elf.5: Minor fixes
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-28 22:17:38 +01:00
Mike Frysinger
51c705cd36
elf(5): Further details on Notes
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-28 22:13:31 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
bcbb240cf4
sched.7: Minor rewording of discussion of nice value
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-28 07:06:59 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
31046c3cbd
sched.7: Add nice(2), getpriority(2), and setpriority(2) to API list
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-28 07:03:26 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
57865ad728
nice.2: Clarify that nice() changes the nice value of the calling *thread*
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-28 06:58:54 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
268c281777
getpriority.2: Expand discussion of getpriority() return value
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-28 06:56:18 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
a6bdf7ee8d
getpriority.2: Improve description of setpriority() return value
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-28 06:53:50 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
2be50a325d
sched.7: Minor text reorganization
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-27 19:27:46 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
927d0dfaa7
sched.7: wfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-27 19:27:45 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
d145138ee0
sched.7: Add a new introductory paragraph describing the nice value
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-27 19:27:45 +01:00
Jakub Wilk
40f0931ccb
random.7: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
2016-11-27 18:59:06 +01:00
Jakub Wilk
0d5b85ca7b
ptrace.2: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
2016-11-27 18:58:18 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
40cbb640dd
getrlimit.2: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-11-27 18:57:53 +01:00