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authorMatt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>2005-08-18 11:24:19 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-08-18 12:53:58 -0700
commit024f474795af7a0d41bd6d60061d78bd66d13f56 (patch)
tree41dd079483713c7669b4c684686de3b701362d34 /kernel/sched.c
parent6cbe9de7a4353d1a1b77887b5459ac5304c0984a (diff)
[PATCH] Make RLIMIT_NICE ranges consistent with getpriority(2)
As suggested by Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>, make RLIMIT_NICE consistent with getpriority before it becomes available in released glibc. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index a646e4f36c4..5f889d0cbfc 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -3378,8 +3378,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_user_nice);
*/
int can_nice(const task_t *p, const int nice)
{
- /* convert nice value [19,-20] to rlimit style value [0,39] */
- int nice_rlim = 19 - nice;
+ /* convert nice value [19,-20] to rlimit style value [1,40] */
+ int nice_rlim = 20 - nice;
return (nice_rlim <= p->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_NICE].rlim_cur ||
capable(CAP_SYS_NICE));
}