Bug#480204: coreutils: man page of 'nice' hard to understand

2008-05-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Bernhard Marx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be much clearer if the man page contained a description like this: Nicenesses range from -20 (process has high priority and gets more resources, thus slowing down other processes) to 19 (process has low priority and runs slow itself but

Bug#480204: coreutils: man page of 'nice' hard to understand

2008-05-08 Thread Bernhard Marx
Package: coreutils Version: 5.97-5.3 Severity: normal The man page of the command 'nice' is very hard to understand. At least for non-native speakers of English. The explanation of what a positive or respectively negative value actually means is given as: Nicenesses range from -20 (most