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Newer page: version 8 Last edited on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 4:55:16 pm by SidSwami
Older page: version 5 Last edited on Monday, June 6, 2005 12:37:32 pm by PerryLorier Revert
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 nice(2) adds ''inc'' to the nice value for the calling pid. (A large nice value means a low priority.) Only the super- user may specify a negative increment, or 
 priority increase. 
  
 !!RETURN VALUE 
-On success, the new nice variable is returned. On failure -1 is returned. Since -1 is a valid return for nice(2), set errno to 0 before calling nice(3 ), and check it's value afterwards. 
+On success, the new nice variable is returned. On failure -1 is returned. Since -1 is a valid return for nice(2), set errno(3) to 0 before calling nice(2 ), and check its value afterwards if nice(2) returns a value of -1
  
 !!ERRORS 
 ;[EPERM]: A non-super user attempts to do a priority increase by supplying a negative ''inc''. 
  
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