Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 14:09:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Alban Hertroys <dalroi@wit401310.student.utwente.nl> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: man nice(1) Message-ID: <20000702120917.D5BA71E7E@wit401310.student.utwente.nl>
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Is it just me or is the man page for nice in error? It says I have to specify a nice value of (+)20 as "nice -20" and a nice value of -20 as "nice --20". running "nice -20" results in a nice value of -20, though, while "nice --20" says: nice: Badly formed number. Eventually it turned out I had to do "nice +20" ... The man page of renice does state the nice value parameters correctly, which causes a confusing difference between the two commands. This is with a somewhat older 4.0-STABLE. I found this when trying a buildworld "nicely", as my system hottens up a tiny bit to much somewhere (probably my pci viper550 with bad fan) causing spontaneous reboots after a couple of hours. -- Alban Hertroys http://wit401310.student.utwente.nl - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I think, therefore I drink. - Lazarus - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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