1NICE(3) 386BSD Programmer's Manual NICE(3) 2 3NNAAMMEE 4 nniiccee - set program scheduling priority 5 6SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS 7 nniiccee(_i_n_t _i_n_c_r) 8 9DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN 10 TThhiiss iinntteerrffaaccee iiss oobbssoolleetteedd bbyy sseettpprriioorriittyy((22)).. 11 12 The nniiccee() function obtains the scheduling priority of the process from 13 the system and sets it to the priority value specified in _i_n_c_r. The 14 priority is a value in the range -20 to 20. The default priority is 0; 15 lower priorities cause more favorable scheduling. Only the super-user 16 may lower priorities. 17 18 Children inherit the priority of their parent processes via fork(2). 19 20SSEEEE AALLSSOO 21 nice(1), setpriority(2), fork(2), renice(8) 22 23HHIISSTTOORRYY 24 A nniiccee() syscall appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX. 25 264th Berkeley Distribution April 19, 1991 1 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67