=================================================================== RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/src/usr.bin/renice/renice.8,v retrieving revision 1.4 retrieving revision 1.5 diff -u -r1.4 -r1.5 --- src/usr.bin/renice/renice.8 1997/08/25 17:51:03 1.4 +++ src/usr.bin/renice/renice.8 1998/09/27 16:57:51 1.5 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: renice.8,v 1.4 1997/08/25 17:51:03 deraadt Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: renice.8,v 1.5 1998/09/27 16:57:51 aaron Exp $ .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991 The Regents of the University of California. .\" All rights reserved. .\" @@ -54,23 +54,23 @@ .Ar user ... .Oc .Sh DESCRIPTION -.Nm Renice +.Nm renice alters the scheduling .Ar priority (an integer) of one or more running processes. The following .Ar who -parameters (pid, pgrp and user) are interpreted as process ID's, process group -ID's, or user names. -.Nm Renice Ns 'ing +parameters (pid, pgrp and user) are interpreted as process IDs, process group +IDs, or user names. +.Nm renice Ns ing a process group causes all processes in the process group to have their scheduling priority altered. -.Nm Renice Ns 'ing +.Nm renice Ns ing a user causes all processes owned by the user to have their scheduling priority altered. By default, the processes to be affected are specified by -their process ID's. +their process IDs. .Pp Options supported by .Nm renice : @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ .It Fl g Force .Ar who -parameters to be interpreted as process group ID's. +parameters to be interpreted as process group IDs. .It Fl u Force the .Ar who @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ .It Fl p Resets the .Ar who -interpretation to be (the default) process ID's. +interpretation to be (the default) process IDs. .El .Pp For example, @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ renice +1 987 -u daemon root -p 32 .Ed .Pp -would change the priority of process ID's 987 and 32, and +would change the priority of process IDs 987 and 32, and all processes owned by users daemon and root. .Pp Users other than the super-user may only alter the priority of @@ -119,14 +119,14 @@ .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /etc/passwd -compact .It Pa /etc/passwd -to map user names to user ID's +to map user names to user IDs .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr nice 1 , .Xr getpriority 2 , .Xr setpriority 2 .Sh BUGS -Non super-users can not increase scheduling priorities of their own processes, +Non-super-users cannot increase scheduling priorities of their own processes, even if they were the ones that decreased the priorities in the first place. .Sh HISTORY The