From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
To: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: [LTP] [PATCH] syscalls/getpriority01: exclude default priority check for PRIO_USER.
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 16:04:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161123150439.GM3346@rei.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5835368B.1080502@cn.fujitsu.com>
Hi!
> >> It happens on Fedora20, RHEL5.11GA, RHEL6.8GA, RNEL7.3GA, testing returns
> >> -20 and -11 for PRIO_USER as root and nobody respectively.
> >
> > Hmm, are you sure that this is not a bug? Since -20 is the highest
> > priority for a process, it does not make much sense to run all root
> > processes like that.
>
> Yes, not all root processes are -20 on my system, but sorry, I am afraid
> it's not a bug, because man page says that the getpriority() call returns
> the highest priority (lowest numerical value) enjoyed by any of the
> specified processes, so if only there is one process is -20, the getpriority()
> will return -20.
Ah, my bad, sure we can't really say if there is a process that belongs
to the same user with priority lower than 0.
So what about we define a range in which the return value should be and
set it to 0 .. 0 for PRIO_PROCESS and PRIO_PGRP and to -20 .. 0 for
PRIO_USER?
--
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-23 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-17 6:02 [LTP] [PATCH] syscalls/getpriority01: exclude default priority check for PRIO_USER Guangwen Feng
2016-11-22 8:56 ` Cyril Hrubis
2016-11-22 9:34 ` Guangwen Feng
2016-11-22 9:37 ` Cyril Hrubis
2016-11-23 6:26 ` Guangwen Feng
2016-11-23 15:04 ` Cyril Hrubis [this message]
2016-11-24 7:02 ` Guangwen Feng
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