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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)nice.3c     6.1 (Berkeley) 5/9/85
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH NICE 3C "May 9, 1985"
        !             8: .UC 4
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: nice \- set program priority
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .B nice(incr)
        !            13: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            14: .ft B
        !            15: This interface is obsoleted by setpriority(2).
        !            16: .ft R
        !            17: .PP
        !            18: The scheduling
        !            19: priority of the process is augmented by
        !            20: .IR incr .
        !            21: Positive priorities get less
        !            22: service than normal.
        !            23: Priority 10 is recommended to users
        !            24: who wish to execute long-running programs
        !            25: without flak from the administration.
        !            26: .PP
        !            27: Negative increments are ignored except on behalf of 
        !            28: the super-user.
        !            29: The priority is limited to the range
        !            30: \-20 (most urgent) to 20 (least).
        !            31: .PP
        !            32: The priority of a process is
        !            33: passed to a child process by
        !            34: .IR fork (2).
        !            35: For a privileged process to return to normal priority
        !            36: from an unknown state,
        !            37: .I nice
        !            38: should be called successively with arguments
        !            39: \-40 (goes to priority \-20 because of truncation),
        !            40: 20 (to get to 0),
        !            41: then 0 (to maintain compatibility with previous versions
        !            42: of this call).
        !            43: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            44: nice(1), setpriority(2), fork(2), renice(8)

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