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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 16:07:54 -0500
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Subject: [PATCH] taskset: fix PERMISSIONS section of taskset man page
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A user is always allowed to change the CPU affinity of his or her
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own processes. CAP_SYS_NICE is only required to change the affinity
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of another user's process.
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Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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Reported-by: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
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---
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 schedutils/taskset.1 | 5 +++--
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 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/schedutils/taskset.1 b/schedutils/taskset.1
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index ade202b..fb5738c 100644
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--- a/schedutils/taskset.1
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+++ b/schedutils/taskset.1
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@@ -102,10 +102,11 @@ Or set it:
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 .B taskset \-p
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 .I mask pid
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 .SH PERMISSIONS
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+A user can change the CPU affinity of a process belonging to the same user.
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 A user must possess
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 .B CAP_SYS_NICE
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-to change the CPU affinity of a process.  Any user can retrieve the affinity
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-mask.
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+to change the CPU affinity of a process belonging to another user.
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+A user can retrieve the affinity mask of any process.
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 .SH AUTHOR
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 Written by Robert M. Love.
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 .SH COPYRIGHT
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1.8.4.2
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