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-rwxr-xr-xmanual/libm-err-tab.pl4
-rw-r--r--manual/resource.texi15
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/manual/libm-err-tab.pl b/manual/libm-err-tab.pl
index 448bf801ab..fa10858343 100755
--- a/manual/libm-err-tab.pl
+++ b/manual/libm-err-tab.pl
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl -w
 
-# Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 1999, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 # This file is part of the GNU C Library.
 # Contributed by Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>, 1999.
 
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ sub parse_ulps {
       next;
     }
     if (/^Function: /) {
-      if (/\Real part of/) {
+      if (/Real part of/) {
 	s/Real part of //;
 	$type = 'real';
       } elsif (/Imaginary part of/) {
diff --git a/manual/resource.texi b/manual/resource.texi
index da30d7cbda..3beb939006 100644
--- a/manual/resource.texi
+++ b/manual/resource.texi
@@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@ afterward as the criterion for failure.
 Set the nice value of a set of processes to @var{niceval}; @var{class}
 and @var{id} specify which ones (see below).
 
-The return value is the nice value on success, and @code{-1} on
+The return value is @code{0} on success, and @code{-1} on
 failure.  The following @code{errno} error condition are possible for
 this function:
 
@@ -1225,7 +1225,10 @@ process group, or its owner (real uid), according to @var{class}.
 @comment BSD
 @deftypefun int nice (int @var{increment})
 Increment the nice value of the calling process by @var{increment}.
-The return value is the same as for @code{setpriority}.
+The return value is the new nice value on success, and @code{-1} on
+failure.  In the case of failure, @code{errno} will be set to the
+same values as for @code{setpriority}.
+
 
 Here is an equivalent definition of @code{nice}:
 
@@ -1233,8 +1236,12 @@ Here is an equivalent definition of @code{nice}:
 int
 nice (int increment)
 @{
-  int old = getpriority (PRIO_PROCESS, 0);
-  return setpriority (PRIO_PROCESS, 0, old + increment);
+  int result, old = getpriority (PRIO_PROCESS, 0);
+  result = setpriority (PRIO_PROCESS, 0, old + increment);
+  if (result != -1)
+      return old + increment;
+  else
+      return -1;
 @}
 @end smallexample
 @end deftypefun