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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-09-09 20:46:54 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-09-09 20:46:54 +0000
commit159fad8d3af38bf04a1fb2b0eb1ec15548852f43 (patch)
tree1ff8746bfe6194122deaf159efcb5f414d102e7c
parentc0b692d2326b52886a4441710c505b3f9945eacf (diff)
downloadcoreutils-159fad8d3af38bf04a1fb2b0eb1ec15548852f43.tar.xz
Document "niceness" vs "nice value".
-rw-r--r--NEWS15
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ed91acf70..fddba0450 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -103,6 +103,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
--indicator-style=slash. Use --file-type or
--indicator-style=file-type to get -p's old behavior.
+ nice changes:
+
+ Documentation and diagnostics now refer to "nicenesses" (commonly
+ in the range -20...19 rather than "nice values" (commonly 0...39).
+
nohup changes:
nohup now ignores the umask when creating nohup.out.
@@ -270,15 +275,15 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
Fixes for "nice":
- If it fails to lower the nice value due to lack of permissions,
+ If it fails to lower the niceness due to lack of permissions,
it goes ahead and runs the command anyway, as POSIX requires.
- It no longer incorrectly reports an error if the current nice
- value happens to be -1.
+ It no longer incorrectly reports an error if the current niceness
+ happens to be -1.
- It no longer assumes that nice values range from -20 through 19.
+ It no longer assumes that nicenesses range from -20 through 19.
- It now consistently adjusts out-of-range nice values to the
+ It now consistently adjusts out-of-range nicenesses to the
closest values in range; formerly it sometimes reported an error.
pathchk no longer accepts trailing options, e.g., "pathchk -p foo -b"