On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 04:15:13PM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote: > On Fri, 15 May 2015 13:34:31 -0600, Jason McIntyre wrote: > > > CVSROOT: /cvs > > Module name: src > > Changes by: [email protected] 2015/05/15 13:34:31 > > > > Modified files: > > usr.bin/renice : renice.8 renice.c > > > > Log message: > > rework synopsis to be a bit less ugly; the result is quite close to the > > posix > > spec... > > Unfortunately, it is no longer accurrate. For instance, there's
to be fair, i'm not sure it was "accurate" anyway. i mean, what did "renice -n 20" mean in the original synopsis? i mailed you about this diff multiple times, and never got any reply. i didn;t know really how to proceed. the original is very difficult to read. it disguises the fact that -gpu have the same basic argument. > no indication that the id can be interleaved with the arguments. > For example, all of the following are valid: > > $ renice -n 10 -g $$ -p $$ -u millert > > $ renice -n 10 -p 8763 -n 20 -p 9873 > my change does not contradict this. you're right that it doesn;t show how things could be mixed, but that's the job of DESCRIPTION in my opinion. > Our renice is more like the traditional BSD version than what POSIX > specifies. > i'll back it out if you want. jmc
