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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
| commit | a9157ce950dfe2fc30795d43b9d79b9d1bffc48b (patch) | |
| tree | 9df484304b560466d145e662c1c254ff0e9ae0ba /static/openbsd/man3/nice.3 | |
| parent | 160aa82b2d39c46ad33723d7d909cb4972efbb03 (diff) | |
docs: Added All OpenBSD Manuals
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man3/nice.3 b/static/openbsd/man3/nice.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..61398787 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man3/nice.3 @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: nice.3,v 1.18 2013/07/18 10:14:48 schwarze 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. +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: July 18 2013 $ +.Dt NICE 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm nice +.Nd change process scheduling priority +.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 adds the value specified in +.Fa incr +to the scheduling priority of the invoking process. +.Pp +.Fa incr +is an integer such that the resulting scheduling priority +is within the range \-20 to 20. +Priority values outside this range are truncated to the appropriate limit. +The default priority is 0; lower priorities cause more favorable scheduling. +Only the superuser may lower priorities. +.Pp +Children inherit the priority of their parent processes via +.Xr fork 2 . +.Sh RETURN VALUES +On success, +.Fn nice +returns the new priority. +On error, it returns -1. +.Pp +Since +.Fn nice +can legitimately return the value -1, it is necessary +to clear the external variable +.Va errno +prior to the +call, then check it afterward to determine +if a -1 is an error or a legitimate value. +.Sh ERRORS +.Fn nice +has the same failure conditions as +.Xr setpriority 2 . +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr nice 1 , +.Xr fork 2 , +.Xr setpriority 2 , +.Xr renice 8 +.Sh HISTORY +A +.Fn nice +system call first appeared in +.At v3 . +It has accepted an +.Fa incr +argument since +.At v4 . |
