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-.TH NICE 2 2007-07-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH NICE 2 2014-04-28 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
nice \- change process priority
.SH SYNOPSIS
or priority increase.
The range for nice values is described in
.BR getpriority (2).
-.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+.SH RETURN VALUE
On success, the new nice value is returned (but see NOTES below).
On error, \-1 is returned, and
.I errno
supplying a negative
.I inc
but has insufficient privileges.
-Under Linux the
+Under Linux, the
.B CAP_SYS_NICE
capability is required.
(But see the discussion of the
.B RLIMIT_NICE
resource limit in
.BR setrlimit (2).)
-.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+.SH CONFORMING TO
SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
However, the Linux and (g)libc
(earlier than glibc 2.2.4) return value is nonstandard, see below.
to 0 before the call, and check its value when
.BR nice ()
returns \-1.
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.SH SEE ALSO
.BR nice (1),
+.BR renice (1),
.BR fork (2),
.BR getpriority (2),
.BR setpriority (2),
.BR capabilities (7),
-.BR renice (8)
+.BR sched (7)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.