From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 21:07:54 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: taskset: fix PERMISSIONS section of taskset man page
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taskset: fix PERMISSIONS section of taskset man page

A user is always allowed to change the CPU affinity of his or her
own processes. CAP_SYS_NICE is only required to change the affinity
of another user's process.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/schedutils/taskset.1 b/schedutils/taskset.1
index ade202b391..fb5738c352 100644
--- a/schedutils/taskset.1
+++ b/schedutils/taskset.1
@@ -102,10 +102,11 @@ Or set it:
 .B taskset \-p
 .I mask pid
 .SH PERMISSIONS
+A user can change the CPU affinity of a process belonging to the same user.
 A user must possess
 .B CAP_SYS_NICE
-to change the CPU affinity of a process.  Any user can retrieve the affinity
-mask.
+to change the CPU affinity of a process belonging to another user.
+A user can retrieve the affinity mask of any process.
 .SH AUTHOR
 Written by Robert M. Love.
 .SH COPYRIGHT