Mercurial > emacs
changeset 52842:1cc25f9733cf
(System Environment): Clean up text for load-average errors.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Mon, 13 Oct 2003 19:27:15 +0000 |
| parents | 9a39d5c2148a |
| children | e05aaf8021c8 |
| files | lispref/os.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/os.texi Mon Oct 13 19:25:50 2003 +0000 +++ b/lispref/os.texi Mon Oct 13 19:27:15 2003 +0000 @@ -796,10 +796,10 @@ If @var{use-float} is non-@code{nil}, then they are returned as floating point numbers and without multiplying by 100. -An error is thrown if the load average can't be obtained. In some -cases making it work would require Emacs being installed setuid or -setgid so that it can read kernel information, and that usually isn't -advisable. +If it is impossible to obtain the load average, this function signals +an error. On some platforms, access to load averages requires +installing Emacs as setuid or setgid so that it can read kernel +information, and that usually isn't advisable. @example @group