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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,ncr.sys.unix
Subject: Re: Nice'ing processes
Keywords: Nice, programatic
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.130832.27505@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 91 13:08:32 GMT
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In article <314@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM>, krupczak@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM (Bobby Krupczak) writes:
|> I have had difficulty sorting through the maze of SysV.4 programming
|> documentation regarding nicing processes.
|> 
|> Does anyone know how to nice a process programmatically (that is inside
|> a C program)?  

  Well, I'm looking at the nice(2) man page for our SysV system, and I don't
see anything "maze"-like or really difficult to understand.  You call
nice(incr) where incr is a positive number to make your process nicer, or a
negative number to make your process less nice.

  If this doesn't answer your question, could you be a bit more specific about
exactly what trouble you're asking?

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