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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