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1.1     ! root        1: .TH NICE 3C "1 April 1983"
        !             2: .UC 4
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: nice \- set program priority
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B nice(incr)
        !             7: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !             8: .ft B
        !             9: This interface is obsoleted by setpriority(2).
        !            10: .ft R
        !            11: .PP
        !            12: The scheduling
        !            13: priority of the process is augmented by
        !            14: .IR incr .
        !            15: Positive priorities get less
        !            16: service than normal.
        !            17: Priority 10 is recommended to users
        !            18: who wish to execute long-running programs
        !            19: without flak from the administration.
        !            20: .PP
        !            21: Negative increments are ignored except on behalf of 
        !            22: the super-user.
        !            23: The priority is limited to the range
        !            24: \-20 (most urgent) to 20 (least).
        !            25: .PP
        !            26: The priority of a process is
        !            27: passed to a child process by
        !            28: .IR fork (2).
        !            29: For a privileged process to return to normal priority
        !            30: from an unknown state,
        !            31: .I nice
        !            32: should be called successively with arguments
        !            33: \-40 (goes to priority \-20 because of truncation),
        !            34: 20 (to get to 0),
        !            35: then 0 (to maintain compatibility with previous versions
        !            36: of this call).
        !            37: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            38: nice(1), setpriority(2), fork(2), renice(8)

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