From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 06:07:04 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Portability and POSIX fixes for "nice".
X-Git-Tag: v5.3.0~1084
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a4dec5db9157aeb3a06cf4a88bf33c475543a13e;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

Portability and POSIX fixes for "nice".
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2f7c4fd597..f46048dee4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -48,6 +48,19 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   If d/x is a directory and x a file, "ln x d/" now reports an error
   instead of incorrectly creating a link to d/x/x.
 
+  Fixes for "nice":
+
+    If it fails to lower the nice value due to lack of permissions,
+    it goes ahead and runs the command anyway, as POSIX requires.
+
+    It no longer incorrectly reports an error if the current nice
+    value happens to be -1.
+
+    It no longer assumes that nice values range from -20 through 19.
+
+    It now consistently adjusts out-of-range nice values to the
+    closest values in range; formerly it sometimes reported an error.
+
   ptx now diagnoses invalid values for its --width=N (-w)
   and --gap-size=N (-g) options.