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Summary: nice/getpriority/setpriority enforces even nice
values
Project: The GNU Hurd
Submitted by: sthibaul
Submitted on: vendredi 26.01.2007 à 00:22
Category: glibc
Severity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - Normal
Item Group: Standard Compliance
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
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Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Reproducibility: Every Time
Size (loc): None
Planned Release: None
Effort: 0.00
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Details:
Because of limitation of the Mach kernel, nice values are divided by two for
getting a Mach priority (MACH_PRIORITY_TO_NICE), and mach priority is
multiplied by two for getting a nice value (NICE_TO_MACH_PRIORITY).
That makes setpriority/getpriority/nice behave strangely: they enforce an
even nice value, which makes the corutils package's testsuite fail.
The POSIX standard says ``The nice() function shall add the value of incr to
the nice value of the calling process.'' and ``Upon successful completion,
nice() shall return the new nice value - {NZERO}.''
Does glibc need corrected or the testsuite fixed to accept such a behavior?
I'd say glibc should be corrected, keeping the nice value in a global
variable.
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