NICE
Section: POSIX Programmer's Manual (3P)
Updated: 2013
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This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.
The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult
the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior),
or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.
NAME
nice
--- change the nice value of a process
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
int nice(int incr);
DESCRIPTION
The
nice()
function shall add the value of
incr
to the nice value of the calling process. A nice value of a process is
a non-negative number for which a more positive value shall result in
less favorable scheduling.
A maximum nice value of 2*{NZERO}-1 and a minimum nice value of 0
shall be imposed by the system. Requests for values above or below
these limits shall result in the nice value being set to the
corresponding limit. Only a process with appropriate privileges can
lower the nice value.
Calling the
nice()
function has no effect on the priority of processes or threads with
policy SCHED_FIFO or SCHED_RR.
The effect on processes or threads with other scheduling policies is
implementation-defined.
The nice value set with
nice()
shall be applied to the process. If the process is multi-threaded,
the nice value shall affect all system scope threads in the process.
As -1 is a permissible return value in a successful situation, an
application wishing to check for error situations should set
errno
to 0, then call
nice(),
and if it returns -1, check to see whether
errno
is non-zero.
RETURN VALUE
Upon successful completion,
nice()
shall return the new nice value -{NZERO}.
Otherwise, -1 shall be returned, the nice value of the process
shall not be changed, and
errno
shall be set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
The
nice()
function shall fail if:
- EPERM
-
The
incr
argument is negative and the calling process does not have appropriate
privileges.
The following sections are informative.
EXAMPLES
Changing the Nice Value
The following example adds the value of the
incr
argument, -20, to the nice value of the calling process.
-
#include <unistd.h>
...
int incr = -20;
int ret;
ret = nice(incr);
APPLICATION USAGE
None.
RATIONALE
None.
FUTURE DIRECTIONS
None.
SEE ALSO
exec,
getpriority()
The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1-2008,
<limits.h>,
<unistd.h>
COPYRIGHT
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form
from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information Technology
-- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base
Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.
(This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1 applied.) In the
event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and
The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard
is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at
http://www.unix.org/online.html .
Any typographical or formatting errors that appear
in this page are most likely
to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to
man page format. To report such errors, see
https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .
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- ERRORS
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- EXAMPLES
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- Changing the Nice Value
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- APPLICATION USAGE
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- RATIONALE
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- FUTURE DIRECTIONS
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- SEE ALSO
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