Hi Jens, Would you be able to comment on http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=691195 please? Either in that bug, or to this mail?
Thanks, Michael On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Simon Paillard <spaill...@debian.org> wrote: > Version: 3.42-1 > > On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 08:32:49AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <k...@iki.fi> wrote: >> > The ioprio_get(2) manual page describes the meanings of the which >> > and who parameters: >> > >> >> IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS >> >> who is a process ID identifying a single process. >> >> >> >> IOPRIO_WHO_PGRP >> >> who is a process group ID identifying all the members of >> >> a process group. >> > >> > The manual page should mention that IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS and >> > IOPRIO_WHO_PGRP also allow who==0. >> >> Yes. >> >> > As implemented in >> > fs/ioprio.c, who==0 means the calling process or its process >> > group. The ioprio program in util-linux already uses the >> > feature. This is worth documenting separately because >> > e.g. tcsetpgrp does not treat pgrp==0 in that way. >> >> Agreed, this should be documented since various APIs interpret pgrp==0 >> differently. Some (e.g., killpg(2)) are like this syscall, others are >> not. > > Documented by Michael in 82fdd7c7d0, already in manpages 3.42. > >> >> IOPRIO_WHO_USER >> >> who is a user ID identifying all of the processes that >> >> have a matching real UID. >> > >> > For IOPRIO_WHO_USER, the situation is more complex: who==0 means >> > the root user in ioprio_set but the current user (I think the >> > real UID of the calling process) in ioprio_get. (That >> > inconsistency might even be a bug.) > > Remaning items as http://bugs.debian.org/691195 > > -- > Simon Paillard > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
