docs/124469: incomplete nice(1) manpage

Ighighi ighighi at gmail.com
Wed Jun 11 09:30:02 UTC 2008


>Number:         124469
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       incomplete nice(1) manpage
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jun 11 09:30:01 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ighighi
>Release:        6.3-STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #0: Wed Jun  4 15:18:20 VET 2008
>Description:
There's no mention of the range of available nice values...  Not even
a pointer to the nice(3) manpage to supplement it.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
I suggest adding this sentence present in NetBSD's nice(1):

"The priority can be adjusted over a range of -20 (the highest) to
20 (the lowest)."

See:
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/nice/nice.1

Also, a pointer to nice(3) would be ok.
We may also use renice(8) which is a lot more complete.

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