Bug 63147
| Summary: | Nice change breaks the existing binaries. | ||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | hjl | ||||
| Component: | man-pages | Assignee: | Jakub Jelinek <jakub> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> | ||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | high | ||||||
| Version: | 8.0 | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2002-10-13 02:00:51 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Created attachment 53184 [details]
A patch
Here is a patch which works for VMware 2.0.4. A similar bug now in RedHat 8.0. The difference now is the return value on success. BTW, on 8.0, the nice man page is the same as 7.3. Then it is a manpage bug, not anything else. I really cannot change the default nice symbol version and screw binary compatibility with everyone else. The old nice behaviour was a bug, not a feature. So VMWare needs to be fixed (wasn't it already). |
The nice ABI change in glibc 2.2.5-30 breaks the existing binaries. Also # man 2 nice NICE(2) Linux Programmer's Manual NICE(2) NAME nice - change process priority SYNOPSIS #include <unistd.h> int nice(int inc); DESCRIPTION nice adds inc to the nice value for the calling pid. (A large nice value means a low priority.) Only the super- user may specify a negative increment, or priority increase. RETURN VALUE On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately. glibc should provide an old version of nice and the nice man page should be fixed.