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NICE(3)			 BSD Library Functions Manual		       NICE(3)

NAME
     nice -- set program scheduling priority

LIBRARY
     Standard C	Library	(libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <unistd.h>

     int
     nice(int incr);

DESCRIPTION
     This interface is obsoleted by setpriority(2).

     The nice()	function adds incr to the scheduling priority of the process.
     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).

RETURN VALUES
     Upon successful completion, nice()	returns	0, and errno is	unchanged.
     Otherwise,	-1 is returned,	the process' nice value	is not changed,	and
     errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS
     The nice()	function will fail if:

     [EPERM]		The incr argument is negative and the caller does not
			have appropriate privileges.

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

STANDARDS
     The nice()	function conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 ("POSIX.1") except
     for the return value.  This implementation	returns	0 upon successful com-
     pletion but the standard requires returning the new nice value, which
     could be -1.

HISTORY
     A nice() syscall appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.

BSD			       February	28, 2015			   BSD
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