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bug#30928: no error val returned by 'nice' failure?
From: |
L A Walsh |
Subject: |
bug#30928: no error val returned by 'nice' failure? |
Date: |
Sat, 24 Mar 2018 12:37:10 -0700 |
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Thunderbird |
I executed a command:
nice --19 sleep 5
and hoped to get back a status as to whether or not I was
allowed to use a negative priority, since on Windows,
anyone in the Admin group can set a priority, with
the above command running sleep at 'High' priority, but
on linux:
nice --19 sleep 1
nice --19 sleep 1
nice: cannot set niceness: Permission denied
echo $?
0
nice has an error setting the priority, but doesn't
set any status in the return code.
Shouldn't nice's exit value be something like
EPERM if it couldn't set the priority -- whether or
not it executed the command...
Otherwise, how do you tell if the resetting of the
priority worked or failed?
- bug#30928: no error val returned by 'nice' failure?,
L A Walsh <=