Re: Broke nice range for RLIMIT NICE

Michael Kerrisk
2005-07-29T10:42:23Z

> > The other downside is, this obviously changes any existing configs
> > actually using this by one nice level..
>
> it's pretty harmless, and i doubt the use of this is all that wide (if
> existent at all - utilities have not been updated yet). Lets fix it
> ASAP, preferably in 2.6.13.

Yes, as noted in my earlier message -- at the moment RLIMIT_NICE
still isn't in the current glibc snapshot...

Cheers,

Michael

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