Package: manpages-dev Version: 1.70-1 Severity: normal Hi,
it seems that the nice(2) manpage is wrong, as it says: On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately. and later, in the notes: Note that the routine is documented in SUSv2 and POSIX 1003.1â2003 to return the new nice value, while the Linux syscall and (g)libc (earlier than glibc 2.2.4) routines return 0 on success. The new nice value can be found using getpriority(2). Note that an implementation in which nice returns the new nice value can legitimately return -1. To reliably detect an error, set errno to 0 before the call, and check its value when nice returns -1. But since sarge ships glibc 2.3.2 and the actual implementation of nice() is to return the new nice value it would be nice to say that immediately in the "return values" and leave the behaviour of the older version in the notes section... Thanks, Guido
