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authorPhilippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>2002-07-14 15:12:00 +0000
committerPhilippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>2002-07-14 15:12:00 +0000
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The .Nm utility
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=99970
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diff --git a/usr.bin/renice/renice.8 b/usr.bin/renice/renice.8
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@@ -45,25 +45,27 @@
.Op Oo Fl g Oc Ar pgrp ...
.Op Oo Fl u Oc Ar user ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Nm Renice
-alters the
+The
+.Nm
+utility alters the
scheduling priority of one or more running processes.
The following
.Ar who
parameters are interpreted as process ID's, process group
ID's, user ID's or user names.
-.Nm Renice Ns 'ing
-a process group causes all processes in the process group
+The
+.Nm Ns 'ing
+of a process group causes all processes in the process group
to have their scheduling priority altered.
-.Nm Renice Ns 'ing
-a user causes all processes owned by the user to have
+The
+.Nm Ns 'ing
+of a user causes all processes owned by the user to have
their scheduling priority altered.
By default, the processes to be affected are specified by
their process ID's.
.Pp
-Options supported by
-.Nm :
-.Bl -tag -width Ds
+The following options are available:
+.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl g
Force
.Ar who
@@ -77,7 +79,7 @@ Force the
.Ar who
parameters to be interpreted as user names or user ID's.
.It Fl p
-Resets the
+Reset the
.Ar who
interpretation to be (the default) process ID's.
.El
@@ -126,7 +128,7 @@ utility conforms to
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
-command appeared in
+utility appeared in
.Bx 4.0 .
.Sh BUGS
Non super-users cannot increase scheduling priorities of their own processes,