From: Paul Eggert Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 06:07:40 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Document portability and POSIX fixes for "nice". X-Git-Tag: v5.3.0~1083 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3bc83c8a92920c0e0e2d016a9aaa52ef8e0e96d4;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git Document portability and POSIX fixes for "nice". --- diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index c8944fa2f2..1ab8317977 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,6 +1,17 @@ +2004-07-25 Paul Eggert + + * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Document the "nice value", and + how it affects the scheduling priority. (The old documentation + implied that the nice value equaled the scheduling priority, which + isn't accurate.) Document that the range of nice values might + exceed -20..19. Specify what happens when you give a nice value + that is out of range, or when you don't have permissions to lower + the nice value. Bash doesn't have a builtin 'nice', so don't say + "most shells" have one. + 2004-04-03 Dmitry V. Levin - * doc/coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Document new + * coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Document new "readlink -f" behaviour and new canonicalize options, -e and -m. 2004-07-02 Jim Meyering @@ -114,7 +125,7 @@ 2004-05-13 Paul Eggert - * doc/coreutils.texi (echo invocation): Document today's changes. + * coreutils.texi (echo invocation): Document today's changes. 2004-05-17 Jim Meyering