[PATCH 05/16] getpriority.2: move info from NOTES to HISTORY

Kir Kolyshkin
2024-06-17T23:11:01Z

In the spirit of commit 4131356cd ("man*/, man-pages.7: VERSIONS,
STANDARDS, HISTORY: Reorganize sections"), move the historical
information about EPERM error from NOTES to HISTORY, and fix the
section reference accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Kir Kolyshkin <kolyshkin@gmail.com>
---
man/man2/getpriority.2 | 32 ++++++++++++++++----------------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/man2/getpriority.2 b/man/man2/getpriority.2
index 111b591b5..4784407ee 100644
--- a/man/man2/getpriority.2
+++ b/man/man2/getpriority.2
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ .SH ERRORS
and was not privileged (on Linux: did not have the
.B CAP_SYS_NICE
capability).
-But see NOTES below.
+But see HISTORY below.
.TP
.B ESRCH
No process was located using the
@@ -151,21 +151,6 @@ .SH STANDARDS
.SH HISTORY
POSIX.1-2001,
SVr4, 4.4BSD (these interfaces first appeared in 4.2BSD).
-.SH NOTES
-For further details on the nice value, see
-.BR sched (7).
-.P
-.IR Note :
-the addition of the "autogroup" feature in Linux 2.6.38 means that
-the nice value no longer has its traditional effect in many circumstances.
-For details, see
-.BR sched (7).
-.P
-A child created by
-.BR fork (2)
-inherits its parent's nice value.
-The nice value is preserved across
-.BR execve (2).
.P
The details on the condition for
.B EPERM
@@ -182,6 +167,21 @@ .SH NOTES
4.3BSD, FreeBSD 4.3, OpenBSD-2.5, ...) behave in the same
manner as Linux 2.6.12 and later.
.\"
+.SH NOTES
+For further details on the nice value, see
+.BR sched (7).
+.P
+.IR Note :
+the addition of the "autogroup" feature in Linux 2.6.38 means that
+the nice value no longer has its traditional effect in many circumstances.
+For details, see
+.BR sched (7).
+.P
+A child created by
+.BR fork (2)
+inherits its parent's nice value.
+The nice value is preserved across
+.BR execve (2).
.SS C library/kernel differences
The getpriority system call returns nice values translated to the range 40..1,
since a negative return value would be interpreted as an error.
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2.45.2