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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-09-08 06:52:09 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-09-08 06:52:09 +0000
commit09575c108cb2680b8cfe55b9c3f3423658632181 (patch)
treedb1239d06dc49558109b211b28db746daef2c743 /src
parentfdf404cc1e693a79cbdf631774ca1f0627f6fd9b (diff)
downloadcoreutils-09575c108cb2680b8cfe55b9c3f3423658632181.tar.xz
Use the phrase "niceness" instead of "nice value" to describe
the biased nice value that can go negative. This corrects a discrepancy with POSIX, which states that nice values are nonnegative.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/nice.c32
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/src/nice.c b/src/nice.c
index b008b536f..26b56b46c 100644
--- a/src/nice.c
+++ b/src/nice.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* nice -- run a program with modified scheduling priority
+/* nice -- run a program with modified nice value
Copyright (C) 1990-2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -44,9 +44,9 @@
#define AUTHORS "David MacKenzie"
#ifdef NICE_PRIORITY
-# define GET_NICE_VALUE() nice (0)
+# define GET_NICENESS() nice (0)
#else
-# define GET_NICE_VALUE() getpriority (PRIO_PROCESS, 0)
+# define GET_NICENESS() getpriority (PRIO_PROCESS, 0)
#endif
#ifndef NZERO
@@ -78,11 +78,11 @@ usage (int status)
{
printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTION] [COMMAND [ARG]...]\n"), program_name);
printf (_("\
-Run COMMAND with an adjusted nice value, which affects the scheduling priority.\n\
-With no COMMAND, print the current nice value. Nice values range from\n\
+Run COMMAND with an adjusted niceness, which affects process scheduling.\n\
+With no COMMAND, print the current niceness. Nicenesses range from\n\
%d (most favorable scheduling) to %d (least favorable).\n\
\n\
- -n, --adjustment=N add integer N to the nice value (default 10)\n\
+ -n, --adjustment=N add integer N to the niceness (default 10)\n\
"),
- NZERO, NZERO - 1);
fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ With no COMMAND, print the current nice value. Nice values range from\n\
int
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
- int current_nice_value;
+ int current_niceness;
int adjustment = 10;
char const *adjustment_given = NULL;
bool ok;
@@ -169,25 +169,25 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
}
/* No command given; print the nice value. */
errno = 0;
- current_nice_value = GET_NICE_VALUE ();
- if (current_nice_value == -1 && errno != 0)
- error (EXIT_FAIL, errno, _("cannot get priority"));
- printf ("%d\n", current_nice_value);
+ current_niceness = GET_NICENESS ();
+ if (current_niceness == -1 && errno != 0)
+ error (EXIT_FAIL, errno, _("cannot get niceness"));
+ printf ("%d\n", current_niceness);
exit (EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
#ifndef NICE_PRIORITY
errno = 0;
- current_nice_value = GET_NICE_VALUE ();
- if (current_nice_value == -1 && errno != 0)
- error (EXIT_FAIL, errno, _("cannot get priority"));
- ok = (setpriority (PRIO_PROCESS, 0, current_nice_value + adjustment) == 0);
+ current_niceness = GET_NICENESS ();
+ if (current_niceness == -1 && errno != 0)
+ error (EXIT_FAIL, errno, _("cannot get niceness"));
+ ok = (setpriority (PRIO_PROCESS, 0, current_niceness + adjustment) == 0);
#else
errno = 0;
ok = (nice (adjustment) != -1 || errno == 0);
#endif
if (!ok)
- error (errno == EPERM ? 0 : EXIT_FAIL, errno, _("cannot set priority"));
+ error (errno == EPERM ? 0 : EXIT_FAIL, errno, _("cannot set niceness"));
execvp (argv[i], &argv[i]);