* Re: bug#20111: nice.1, renice.1 and nice.info : claims non-root user cannot decrease niceness
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@ 2016-01-04 1:19 ` Pádraig Brady
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From: Pádraig Brady @ 2016-01-04 1:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stéphane Aulery, 20111; +Cc: util-linux
tag 20111 notabug
close 20111
stop
coreutils nice docs don't mention the root user.
renice is implemented by util-linux so CCing there.
thanks,
Pádraig.
On 15/03/15 18:32, Stéphane Aulery wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I had you followed a bug reported by a Ubuntu user [1] about "nice value" change:
>
> According to "man nice" and "info coreutils nice", it is
> not possible for a non-root user to decrease the niceness
> of a process (even if they were the ones that increased the
> niceness). However this not the case in Ubuntu 9.04, as
> evidenced by the fact that the attached script "stopfirefox"
> can reduce the niceness back to 0 when firefox is unminimized.
> The manpage and infopage should be modified in light of this,
> and should also say where this was configured.
>
> According to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_%28Unix%29#cite_note-0 This
> can be configured in /etc/security/limits.conf, however this
> does not seem to have any uncommented lines, so presumably
> Ubuntu configured this somewhere else.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
>
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
> NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
> PackageArchitecture: all
> ProcEnviron:
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
> Uname: Linux 2.6.28-14-generic x86_64
>
> I think that add a reference to talk about /etc/security/limits.conf is
> a good idea.
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/468518
>
> Regards,
>
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