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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: util-linux-ng@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kzak@redhat.com, jmario@redhat.com
Subject: [PATCH] fix PERMISSIONS section of taskset man page
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 16:07:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131206160754.1b162955@annuminas.surriel.com> (raw)

A user is always allowed to change the CPU affinity of his or her
own processes. CAP_SYS_NICE is only required to change the affinity
of another user's process.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
---
 schedutils/taskset.1 | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/schedutils/taskset.1 b/schedutils/taskset.1
index ade202b..916bce7 100644
--- a/schedutils/taskset.1
+++ b/schedutils/taskset.1
@@ -102,10 +102,11 @@ Display version information and exit.
 .B taskset \-p
 .I mask pid
 .SH PERMISSIONS
+A user can change the CPU affinity of a process belonging to the same user.
 A user must possess
 .B CAP_SYS_NICE
-to change the CPU affinity of a process.  Any user can retrieve the affinity
-mask.
+to change the CPU affinity of a process belonging to another user. 
+A user can retrieve the affinity mask of any process.
 .SH AUTHOR
 Written by Robert M. Love.
 .SH COPYRIGHT

             reply	other threads:[~2013-12-06 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-06 21:07 Rik van Riel [this message]
2013-12-10 10:34 ` [PATCH] fix PERMISSIONS section of taskset man page Karel Zak

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