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bug #18883: nice/getpriority/setpriority enforces even nice values

Submitter:  Samuel Thibault <sthibaul>
Submitted:  Thu 25 Jan 2007 11:22:19 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  glibc Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Standard Compliance
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
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Open/Closed:  Open Reproducibility:  Every Time
Size (loc):  None Planned Release:  None
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Mon 28 Apr 2014 04:55:48 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Well, yes, I eventually commited the change to gnumach, and the
corresponding glibc change is in topgit's t/nice branch :)

Samuel Thibault <sthibaul>
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Mon 28 Apr 2014 04:48:43 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Contrary to its documentation, my gnumach has actually 50 priorities:

shed.h:
#define NRQS 50 /* 50 run queues per cpu */
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#define invalid_pri(pri) (((pri) < 0) || ((pri) >= NRQS))

So we can actually have a bijective mapping from Mach priorities to posix nice values.

 Justus Winter <teythoon>
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Thu 25 Jan 2007 11:22:19 PM UTC, original submission:  

Because of limitation of the Mach kernel, nice values are divided by two for getting a Mach priority (MACH_PRIORITY_TO_NICE), and mach priority is multiplied by two for getting a nice value (NICE_TO_MACH_PRIORITY).

That makes setpriority/getpriority/nice behave strangely: they enforce an even nice value, which makes the corutils package's testsuite fail.

The POSIX standard says ``The nice() function shall add the value of incr to the nice value of the calling process.'' and ``Upon successful completion, nice() shall return the new nice value - {NZERO}.''

Does glibc need corrected or the testsuite fixed to accept such a behavior?  I'd say glibc should be corrected, keeping the nice value in a global variable.

 Samuel Thibault <sthibaul>
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