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nice \- set program priority
This interface is obsoleted by setpriority(2).
priority of the process is augmented by
Positive priorities get less
Priority 10 is recommended to users
who wish to execute long-running programs
without flak from the administration.
Negative increments are ignored except on behalf of
The priority is limited to the range
\-20 (most urgent) to 20 (least).
The priority of a process is
passed to a child process by
For a privileged process to return to normal priority
should be called successively with arguments
\-40 (goes to priority \-20 because of truncation),
then 0 (to maintain compatibility with previous versions
nice(1), setpriority(2), fork(2), renice(8)