Bug 161321 - renice man page gives incorrect usage instruction
Summary: renice man page gives incorrect usage instruction
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: man-pages
Version: 4
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jiri Ryska
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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: 161462 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-06-22 13:01 UTC by Charles R. Price, Jr.
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: man-pages-2.05-1
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2005-07-04 14:56:30 UTC
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Description Charles R. Price, Jr. 2005-06-22 13:01:16 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4

Description of problem:
The renice man page installed at /usr/share/man/man1p/renice.1p.gz calls for a
-n parameter as follows:
renice -n increment [-g | -p | -u] ID ...

This differs from, and precedes in search order, the util-linux-2.12p man page at /usr/share/man/man8/renice.8.gz which gives the following synopsis:
renice priority [[-p] pid ...] [[-g] pgrp ...] [[-u] user ...]

The major difference is the -n parameter called for in the man-pages instruction, but not accepted by the util-linux program.

If the -n parameter is used the following error message is returned:

renice: 10: getpriority: No such process
3983: old priority 0, new priority 0


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
man-pages-1.67-7

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.renice -n 10 -p <pid>
2.
3.
  

Actual Results:  renice: 10: getpriority: No such process
3983: old priority 0, new priority 0


Expected Results:  3983: old priority 0, new priority 10

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jiri Ryska 2005-07-14 08:24:14 UTC
*** Bug 161462 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***


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