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1.1     ! root        1: .TH NICE 2
        !             2: .CT 2 time_man
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: nice \(mi set program priority
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B void nice(incr)
        !             7: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !             8: The scheduling
        !             9: priority of the process is augmented by
        !            10: .IR incr .
        !            11: Positive priorities get less
        !            12: service than normal.
        !            13: Priority 10
        !            14: is recommended to users
        !            15: who wish to execute long-running programs
        !            16: without flak from the administration.
        !            17: Priority 19 is recommended for programs
        !            18: that should only execute in ``idle'' time.
        !            19: .PP
        !            20: Only the super-user can effect negative increments.
        !            21: Priorities less than \-20
        !            22: (most urgent)
        !            23: are treated as \-20.
        !            24: Priorities greater than 19
        !            25: are treated as 19.
        !            26: .PP
        !            27: The priority of a process is
        !            28: passed to a child process by
        !            29: .IR fork (2).
        !            30: For a privileged process to return to normal priority
        !            31: from an unknown state,
        !            32: .I nice
        !            33: should be called successively with arguments
        !            34: \-40
        !            35: (goes to priority
        !            36: \-20
        !            37: because of truncation),
        !            38: then 20
        !            39: (to get to 0).
        !            40: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            41: .IR nice (1),
        !            42: .IR fork (2)

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