Re: nice(2) testset
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 01:47:02PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Does anyone know what's up with the behavior of nice on linux, glibc
> 2.2.5? The documentaton in glibc and on the nice man page say that linux
> nice used to return 0 on success and -1 on failure, but that as of glibc
> 2.2.4, it complies with standards and returns the new nice value on
> success. But here glibc 2.2.5 continues to behave the way it always has
> on linux, in contravention of the docs.
aj forgot to complete the nice fixes in CVS. I had jakub fix it in
CVS a few days ago.
> Anyway, three of the nice tests (T.nice-{5,7,8}) are already in the
> waivers list, and this is why they're failing everywhere. T.nice-6 also
> fails everywhere and is not in the waivers list, and it probably should
> be.
We should un-waive them, IMHO.
Cheers,
Matt
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