Fixing the man page for renice

[Glen Barber]

On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 12:24:40PM +0100, Frank Leonhardt wrote:
> Okay - I've been around here for some time but I haven't actually
> changed anything. I'm hoping someone will sanity check the following
> as a reasonable course of action, as I really don't want to mess
> anything up.
> 
> I'm reading:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/problem-reports/index.html
> 
> The problem is the man page for renice. Has anyone tried it as the
> root user in a jail? You can increase the nice value of any process
> within the jail you like, but you can't decrease it. In other words
> it behaves as though you were a standard user except you can change
> other users' processes too.
> 
> This all seems reasonable as you don't want the root user in their
> jailed machine pinching CPU time from everyone else. It's probably
> documented somewhere, but I've only found an old discussion about
> allowing jailed users to renice anything. It's certinaly not in the
> first place I'd look - the man page.
> 
> So, what I've done:
> 
> I've searched for "renice" in
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?query and not found
> it listed.
> 
> I've Googled for things like "renice in jail"
> 
> I've checked out the behaviour out on running systems I have
> available to me.
> 
> I'm about to fill out this form here:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html
> 
> Should I do anything else first?
> 

Will you be including a patch?  If so, perhaps sending the patch to this
list for review might be a good first course of action.  If not, then
your plan looks good. :)

Glen

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