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+.\" $NetBSD: nice.3,v 1.14 2011/05/01 02:54:22 christos Exp $
+.\"
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+.\" @(#)nice.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
+.\"
+.Dd April 30, 2011
+.Dt NICE 3
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm nice
+.Nd set program scheduling priority
+.Sh LIBRARY
+.Lb libc
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In unistd.h
+.Ft int
+.Fn nice "int incr"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Bf -symbolic
+This interface is obsoleted by
+.Xr setpriority 2 .
+.Ef
+.Pp
+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 a process with appropriate privileges may lower priorities.
+.Pp
+Children inherit the priority of their parent processes via
+.Xr fork 2 .
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+Upon successful completion,
+.Fn nice
+returns the new nice value minus
+.Dv NZERO .
+Otherwise, \-1 is returned, the process' nice value is not changed, and
+.Va errno
+is set to indicate the error.
+.Sh ERRORS
+The
+.Fn nice
+function will fail if:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er EPERM
+The
+.Fa incr
+argument is negative and the caller does not have appropriate privileges.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr nice 1 ,
+.Xr fork 2 ,
+.Xr setpriority 2 ,
+.Xr renice 8
+.Sh STANDARDS
+The
+.Fn nice
+function conforms to
+.St -xpg4.2 .
+.Sh HISTORY
+A
+.Fn nice
+syscall appeared in
+.At v6 .