Re: Bug Report Nice Documentation by David MacKenzie

2006-06-08 Thread Paul Eggert
Len Umina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would suggest the following change: Thanks for pointing out the wording problem, but the proposed change is too much: it contains many details that may be true for your system but are not true in general. For example, on some systems users other than the

Bug Report Nice Documentation by David MacKenzie

2006-06-08 Thread Len Umina
Nicenesses range from -20 (most favorable scheduling) to 19 (least favorable). -- This is very ambiguous since Niceness is a concept based on what the user is trying to do and therefore has two potential, but reversed scales for evaluation. For example: