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 obtains the scheduling priority of the process from the system and
sets it to the priority value specified in 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
HISTORY
A nice() syscall appeared in
Version 6 AT&T UNIX.