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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-03-10 20:17:53 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-03-10 20:17:53 +0000
commit8beef7d0a675bc64e2923d671c5b161fa58495c1 (patch)
treef314076febb8e5c2bf99469fcae5a35f516008a6 /usr.bin/renice/renice.8
parentbe14c55d489e58f3ab7be4c8e95236a8e54673a0 (diff)
Various cleanups and standardization.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/renice/renice.8')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/renice/renice.810
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/renice/renice.8 b/usr.bin/renice/renice.8
index 7ee47b1cfa5..9a8ce764511 100644
--- a/usr.bin/renice/renice.8
+++ b/usr.bin/renice/renice.8
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: renice.8,v 1.9 2000/03/04 20:02:23 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: renice.8,v 1.10 2000/03/10 20:17:50 aaron Exp $
+.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -98,7 +99,8 @@ all processes owned by users daemon and root.
.Pp
Users other than the super-user may only alter the priority of
processes they own,
-and can only monotonically increase their ``nice value''
+and can only monotonically increase their
+.Dq nice value
within the range 0 to
.Dv PRIO_MAX
(20).
@@ -113,7 +115,9 @@ to
Useful priorities are:
20 (the affected processes will run only when nothing else
in the system wants to),
-0 (the ``base'' scheduling priority),
+0 (the
+.Dq base
+scheduling priority),
anything negative (to make things go very fast).
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /etc/passwd -compact