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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