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37 .Nd set program scheduling priority
46 This interface is obsoleted by
52 function obtains the scheduling priority of the process
53 from the system and sets it to the priority value specified in
55 The priority is a value in the range -20 to 20.
56 The default priority is 0; lower priorities cause more favorable scheduling.
57 Only the super-user may lower priorities.
59 Children inherit the priority of their parent processes via
62 Upon successful completion,
64 returns the new nice value minus
66 Otherwise, \-1 is returned, the process' nice value is not changed, and
68 is set to indicate the error.
72 function will fail if:
77 argument is negative and the caller is not the super-user.