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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2009-10-24 13:50:13 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2009-10-26 08:25:34 +0100 |
| commit | 501bf7b589e8c63c408c86fce5bb9902ae019017 (patch) | |
| tree | bb481650db8dc23e5a0a0bdd528677eb1bec73bd /src | |
| parent | 69fbfd400c8000e7a7aeed399476c6d9c002a0bc (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-501bf7b589e8c63c408c86fce5bb9902ae019017.tar.xz | |
nice: execute program even when setpriority fails due to EACCES
* src/nice.c (perm_related_errno): New function.
(main): Use it, rather than testing only errno == EPERM.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/nice.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/nice.c b/src/nice.c index b04f675fb..e157db801 100644 --- a/src/nice.c +++ b/src/nice.c @@ -86,6 +86,12 @@ With no COMMAND, print the current niceness. Nicenesses range from\n\ exit (status); } +static bool +perm_related_errno (int err) +{ + return err == EACCES || err == EPERM; +} + int main (int argc, char **argv) { @@ -179,7 +185,8 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) ok = (setpriority (PRIO_PROCESS, 0, current_niceness + adjustment) == 0); #endif if (!ok) - error (errno == EPERM ? 0 : EXIT_CANCELED, errno, _("cannot set niceness")); + error (perm_related_errno (errno) ? 0 + : EXIT_CANCELED, errno, _("cannot set niceness")); execvp (argv[i], &argv[i]); |