Small select manpage update.

manpages for sync and getpriority/setpriority system calls.
manpage for nice utility.

diff --git a/man/man1/nice.1 b/man/man1/nice.1
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..0a11c18
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/man1/nice.1
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+.TH NICE 1
+.SH NAME
+nice \- invoke command with higher or lower scheduling priority
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+\fBnice\fP [\fB\-n\fP increment] \fIutility\fP [\fIargument\fP...]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The
+.B nice
+utility runs \fIutility\fP at a different scheduling priority than
+the default. The nicer the process is to others (the higher the
+increment), the less favourable the scheduling is. Super-users
+can give a negative increment, meaning scheduling is more favourable
+than the default.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.B \-n \fIincrement
+the increment value sets how nice the invoked command will be. 0 is
+the same priority as regular processes. 10 is the default.
+The range is -20 to 20.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+getpriority(2), setpriority(2)
+.SH AUTHOR
+This
+.B nice
+utility was imported from FreeBSD. This manual page was written
+Ben Gras <beng@few.vu.nl>.

diff --git a/man/man2/getpriority.2 b/man/man2/getpriority.2
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..d0ac115
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/man2/getpriority.2
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+.TH GETPRIORITY 2 "Jul 1, 2005"
+.UC 4
+.SH NAME
+getpriority, setpriority \- get and set scheduling priority
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.nf
+.ft B
+#include <sys/resource.h>
+
+int getpriority(int \fIwhich\fP, int \fIwho\fP)
+int setpriority(int \fIwhich\fP, int \fIwho\fP, int \fIprio\fP)
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B Getpriority
+returns the scheduling priority of the process, process group, or user
+referred to in \fIwho\fP. Which of the three is indicated in
+\fIwhich\fP, by PRIO_PROCESS, PRIO_PGRP and PRIO_USER, respectively.
+In Minix, currently only PRIO_PROCESS is implemented.
+
+The range of the returned value is between PRIO_MIN and PRIO_MAX,
+currently between -20 and 20, and is the so-called nice value of
+a process. The higher the nice value, the less favourable the scheduling
+priority.
+
+.B Setpriority
+sets the priority indicated by \fIwho\fP and \fIwhich\fP to \fIprio\fP.
+\fIprio\fP, which is the nice value, may only be lowered by the super-user.
+.SH RETURN VALUES
+These functions both return -1 on failure, and set errno in this case.
+Because
+.B getpriority
+can return -1 as the real nice value, the caller has to reset errno
+and check errno afterwards to distinguish between an error condition
+and a negative nice value.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+nice(1)
+.SH AUTHOR
+Ben Gras <beng@few.vu.nl>

diff --git a/man/man2/select.2 b/man/man2/select.2
index 32cbc7e606d59543580e958a4eceab5a936c5902..bf983bee986336d1fdeee852d4e06ff639a8f1d0 100644 (file)
--- a/man/man2/select.2
+++ b/man/man2/select.2
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ up to and including file descriptor
 , for reading, writing, or exceptional conditions, respectively.
 .B Select
 currently supports regular files, pipes, named pipes,
-and tty file descriptors. Inet and pty fd's still to be done.
+inet, and tty file descriptors. Pty fd's still to be done.
 
 If the 
 .I readfds 

diff --git a/man/man2/sync.2 b/man/man2/sync.2
index c769d69b532fc6f027a211e7c49383da3433579a..817845423e88ffc1237b429e9b7e050d98461c0f 100644 (file)
--- a/man/man2/sync.2
+++ b/man/man2/sync.2
@@ -7,13 +7,14 @@
 .TH SYNC 2 "June 30, 1985"
 .UC 4
 .SH NAME
-sync \- update super-block
+sync, fsync \- update dirty buffers and super-block
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 .ft B
 #include <unistd.h>
 
 int sync(void)
+int fsync(fd)
 .ft R
 .fi
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -22,6 +23,10 @@ causes all information in the file system
 buffers that should be on disk to be written out.
 This includes modified super blocks,
 modified i-nodes, and delayed block I/O.
+.B
+Fsync
+does the same thing, but only for the blocks associated with a specific
+file descriptor. Under minix, currently the two calls do the same thing.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .BR reboot (2),
 .BR sync (8).