taskset.1: fix description of `-c` option
PATCH 1/1 taskset.1: fix description of `-c` option
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From: "Yuriy M. Kaminskiy" <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 03:34:13 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] taskset.1: fix description of -c option
Commit 42f15e9848dc07e86a2b80c742a0179aaced6c71 introduced a certain
inaccuracy in -c option description; it is not _the option with an argument_,
but it is the flag that changes interpretation of mask parameter.
The difference is almost not noticeable, but there are one corner case where it is:
taskset -c 1 -p $$
fails (but it would work if 42f15e was correct). Instead,
taskset -c -p 1 $$
works (but it should not have if 42f15e was correct).
---P.S. argument parsing in taskset (and chrt) is rather unusual and confusing, and I'd voted to change it instead... unfortunately, people/scripts/... already depend on current behavior (and it is not outright broken, just unusual), so it is impossible.
schedutils/taskset.1 | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
schedutils/taskset.1 +3 -3
@@ -73,9 +73,9 @@ CPU. .BR \-a ,\ \-\-all\-tasks Set or retrieve the CPU affinity of all the tasks (threads) for a given PID. .TP -.BR \-c ,\ \-\-cpu\-list \ \fInumbers -Specify a numerical list of processors instead of a bitmask. The \fInumbers\fR -are separated by commas and may include ranges. For example: +.BR \-c ,\ \-\-cpu\-list +Interpret \fImask\fR as numerical list of processors instead of a bitmask. +Numbers are separated by commas and may include ranges. For example: .BR 0,5,8-11 . .TP .BR \-p ,\ \-\-pid
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