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NICE(3P) POSIX Programmer's Manual NICE(3P)
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.
nice — change the nice value of a process
#include <unistd.h>
int nice(int incr);
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.
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.
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.
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);
None.
None.
None.
exec(1p), getpriority(3p)
The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, limits.h(0p),
unistd.h(0p)
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 .
IEEE/The Open Group 2013 NICE(3P)
Pages that refer to this page: unistd.h(0p), nice(1p), exec(3p), getpriority(3p)