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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2012-11-22 14:25:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2012-11-24 15:38:16 +0000 |
| commit | 61d66690a5bb12a720383f10b1d9a1b8f840c726 (patch) | |
| tree | 8434cc48bab76b5d3662bef293e4978fb4895ec6 /doc | |
| parent | fac673a577aa78fec7b838a8fe727f41bd56bbe3 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-61d66690a5bb12a720383f10b1d9a1b8f840c726.tar.xz | |
doc: clarify that renice is needed to adjust niceness
* doc/coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Ensure there is no
ambiguity in the summary in relation to nice being able
to adjust the niceness of an existing process.
Reference the renice command.
* man/nice.x: Reference renice (1)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index cc9df7d43..166c41e23 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -15677,8 +15677,9 @@ the exit status of @var{command} otherwise @cindex scheduling, affecting @cindex appropriate privileges -@command{nice} prints or modifies a process's @dfn{niceness}, -a parameter that affects whether the process is scheduled favorably. +@command{nice} prints a process's @dfn{niceness}, or runs +a command with modified niceness. @dfn{niceness} affects how +favorably the process is scheduled in the system. Synopsis: @example @@ -15713,6 +15714,9 @@ built-in utilities}). @mayConflictWithShellBuiltIn{nice} +Note to change the @dfn{niceness} of an existing process, +one needs to use the @command{renice} command. + The program accepts the following option. Also see @ref{Common options}. Options must precede operands. |