NICE

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BSD 4  

NAME

nice - set program scheduling priority  

SYNOPSIS

Fn nice int incr  

DESCRIPTION

Bf -symbolic This interface is obsoleted by setpriority(2). Ef

The Fn nice function obtains the scheduling priority of the process from the system and sets it to the priority value specified in Fa incr . The priority is a value in the range -20 to 20. The default priority is 0; lower priorities cause more favorable scheduling. Only the super-user may lower priorities.

Children inherit the priority of their parent processes via fork(2).  

SEE ALSO

nice(1), setpriority(2), fork(2), renice(8)  

HISTORY

A Fn nice syscall appeared in AT&T System v6 .


 

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