The following reply was made to PR kern/81951; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/81951: [patch] linux emulation: getpriority() returns incorrect
value
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:09:36 +0300
on 13.06.2005 15:34 Andriy Gapon said the following:
> As to the [-20,+20] range, I see in HP-UX, Solaris and AIX man pages
> that they also have this range. Seems that BSD won over POSIX (and SysV)
> in this case.
Another idea - all the above OSes and FreeBSD are POSIX compliant with
NZERO=21 and further restriction (which is allowed by POSIX) of
prohibiting -21 priority. How does this sound ? :-)
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Andriy Gapon