Package: util-linux
Version: 2.28-5
Severity: normal
Tags: patch upstream
Dear Maintainer,
The ionice(1) man page currently contains:
-n, --classdata level
Specify the scheduling class data. This only has an effect if
the class accepts an argument. For realtime and best-effort,
0-7 are valid data (priority levels).
This does not state whether '0' or '7' is the highest priority. (That
information is only found in the 'examples' section of the man page.)
The attached patch adds that information to the option description too,
which is where users would expect to find it.
Cheers,
Daniel
diff --git a/schedutils/ionice.1 b/schedutils/ionice.1
index 3b85635..dfc0f5c 100644
--- a/schedutils/ionice.1
+++ b/schedutils/ionice.1
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ Specify the name or number of the scheduling class to use;
\fI0\fR for none,
.BR \-n , " \-\-classdata " \fIlevel\fR
Specify the scheduling class data. This only has an effect if the class
accepts an argument. For realtime and best-effort, \fI0-7\fR are valid data
-(priority levels).
+(priority levels), and \fI0\fR represents the highest priority.
.TP
.BR \-p , " \-\-pid " \fIPID\fR...
Specify the process IDs of running processes for which to get or set the
