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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2005-09-09 20:46:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2005-09-09 20:46:54 +0000 |
| commit | 159fad8d3af38bf04a1fb2b0eb1ec15548852f43 (patch) | |
| tree | 1ff8746bfe6194122deaf159efcb5f414d102e7c /NEWS | |
| parent | c0b692d2326b52886a4441710c505b3f9945eacf (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-159fad8d3af38bf04a1fb2b0eb1ec15548852f43.tar.xz | |
Document "niceness" vs "nice value".
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 15 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -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" |