Thread (21 messages) 21 messages, 2 authors, 2024-06-18

[PATCH 05/16] getpriority.2: move info from NOTES to HISTORY

From: Kir Kolyshkin <hidden>
Date: 2024-06-17 23:11:01
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

In the spirit of commit 4131356cd ("man*/, man-pages.7: VERSIONS,
STANDARDS, HISTORY: Reorganize sections"), move the historical
information about EPERM error from NOTES to HISTORY, and fix the
section reference accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Kir Kolyshkin <redacted>
---
 man/man2/getpriority.2 | 32 ++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/man2/getpriority.2 b/man/man2/getpriority.2
index 111b591b5..4784407ee 100644
--- a/man/man2/getpriority.2
+++ b/man/man2/getpriority.2
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ .SH ERRORS
 and was not privileged (on Linux: did not have the
 .B CAP_SYS_NICE
 capability).
-But see NOTES below.
+But see HISTORY below.
 .TP
 .B ESRCH
 No process was located using the
@@ -151,21 +151,6 @@ .SH STANDARDS
 .SH HISTORY
 POSIX.1-2001,
 SVr4, 4.4BSD (these interfaces first appeared in 4.2BSD).
-.SH NOTES
-For further details on the nice value, see
-.BR sched (7).
-.P
-.IR Note :
-the addition of the "autogroup" feature in Linux 2.6.38 means that
-the nice value no longer has its traditional effect in many circumstances.
-For details, see
-.BR sched (7).
-.P
-A child created by
-.BR fork (2)
-inherits its parent's nice value.
-The nice value is preserved across
-.BR execve (2).
 .P
 The details on the condition for
 .B EPERM
@@ -182,6 +167,21 @@ .SH NOTES
 4.3BSD, FreeBSD 4.3, OpenBSD-2.5, ...) behave in the same
 manner as Linux 2.6.12 and later.
 .\"
+.SH NOTES
+For further details on the nice value, see
+.BR sched (7).
+.P
+.IR Note :
+the addition of the "autogroup" feature in Linux 2.6.38 means that
+the nice value no longer has its traditional effect in many circumstances.
+For details, see
+.BR sched (7).
+.P
+A child created by
+.BR fork (2)
+inherits its parent's nice value.
+The nice value is preserved across
+.BR execve (2).
 .SS C library/kernel differences
 The getpriority system call returns nice values translated to the range 40..1,
 since a negative return value would be interpreted as an error.
-- 
2.45.2
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