}
else
{
- /* Set HOME, SHELL, and if not becoming a super-user,
+ /* Set HOME, SHELL, and (if not becoming a superuser)
USER and LOGNAME. */
if (change_environment)
{
.TP
.B " renice" +1 987 -u daemon root -p 32
.SH NOTES
-Users other than the super-user may only alter the priority of processes they
+Users other than the superuser may only alter the priority of processes they
own, and can only monotonically increase their ``nice value'' (for security
reasons) within the range 0 to
.BR PRIO_MAX \ (20),
unless a nice resource limit is set (Linux 2.6.12 and higher). The
-super-user may alter the priority of any process and set the priority to any
+superuser may alter the priority of any process and set the priority to any
value in the range
.BR PRIO_MIN \ (\-20)
to
.BR getpriority (2),
.BR setpriority (2)
.SH BUGS
-Non super-users can not increase scheduling priorities of their own processes,
+Non-superusers cannot increase scheduling priorities of their own processes,
even if they were the ones that decreased the priorities in the first place.
.PP
The Linux kernel (at least version 2.0.0) and linux libc (at least version
Short lines are white space padded to have 79 characters. The command will
always put carriage return and new line at the end of each line.
.PP
-Only the super-user can write on the terminals of users who have chosen to
+Only the superuser can write on the terminals of users who have chosen to
deny messages or are using a program which automatically denies messages.
.PP
Reading from a file is refused when the invoker is not superuser and the
.B EOF
indicating that the conversation is over.
.PP
-You can prevent people (other than the super-user) from writing to you with
+You can prevent people (other than the superuser) from writing to you with
the
.BR mesg (1)
command. Some commands, for example