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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
| commit | 253e67c8b3a72b3a4757fdbc5845297628db0a4a (patch) | |
| tree | adf53b66087aa30dfbf8bf391a1dadb044c3bf4d /static/netbsd/man3/nice.3 | |
| parent | a9157ce950dfe2fc30795d43b9d79b9d1bffc48b (diff) | |
docs: Added All NetBSD Manuals
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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man3/nice.3 b/static/netbsd/man3/nice.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3aa293f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man3/nice.3 @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: nice.3,v 1.14 2011/05/01 02:54:22 christos Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)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 . |
