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| author | Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> | 2005-08-18 11:24:19 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-08-18 12:53:58 -0700 |
| commit | 024f474795af7a0d41bd6d60061d78bd66d13f56 (patch) | |
| tree | 41dd079483713c7669b4c684686de3b701362d34 /kernel/sched.c | |
| parent | 6cbe9de7a4353d1a1b77887b5459ac5304c0984a (diff) | |
| download | lwn-024f474795af7a0d41bd6d60061d78bd66d13f56.tar.gz lwn-024f474795af7a0d41bd6d60061d78bd66d13f56.zip | |
[PATCH] Make RLIMIT_NICE ranges consistent with getpriority(2)
As suggested by Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>, make RLIMIT_NICE
consistent with getpriority before it becomes available in released glibc.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index a646e4f36c41..5f889d0cbfcc 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -3378,8 +3378,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_user_nice); */ int can_nice(const task_t *p, const int nice) { - /* convert nice value [19,-20] to rlimit style value [0,39] */ - int nice_rlim = 19 - nice; + /* convert nice value [19,-20] to rlimit style value [1,40] */ + int nice_rlim = 20 - nice; return (nice_rlim <= p->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_NICE].rlim_cur || capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)); } |