From ab0e0fa7a45bccf8304edcb2a904f30a4f3a48b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 16:07:54 -0500

Subject: [PATCH] taskset: fix PERMISSIONS section of taskset man page

A user is always allowed to change the CPU affinity of his or her

own processes. CAP_SYS_NICE is only required to change the affinity

of another user's process.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

Reported-by: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>

---

 schedutils/taskset.1 | 5 +++--

 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/schedutils/taskset.1 b/schedutils/taskset.1

index ade202b..fb5738c 100644

--- a/schedutils/taskset.1

+++ b/schedutils/taskset.1

@@ -102,10 +102,11 @@ Or set it:

 .B taskset \-p

 .I mask pid

 .SH PERMISSIONS

+A user can change the CPU affinity of a process belonging to the same user.

 A user must possess

 .B CAP_SYS_NICE

-to change the CPU affinity of a process.  Any user can retrieve the affinity

-mask.

+to change the CPU affinity of a process belonging to another user.

+A user can retrieve the affinity mask of any process.

 .SH AUTHOR

 Written by Robert M. Love.

 .SH COPYRIGHT

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1.8.4.2