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GETPRIORITY(2) FreeBSD System Calls Manual GETPRIORITY(2)
NAME
getpriority, setpriority -- get/set program scheduling priority
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <sys/resource.h>
int
getpriority(int which, int who);
int
setpriority(int which, int who, int prio);
DESCRIPTION
The scheduling priority of the process, process group, or user, as indi-
cated by which and who is obtained with the getpriority() system call and
set with the setpriority() system call. The which argument is one of
PRIO_PROCESS, PRIO_PGRP, or PRIO_USER, and who is interpreted relative to
which (a process identifier for PRIO_PROCESS, process group identifier
for PRIO_PGRP, and a user ID for PRIO_USER). A zero value of who denotes
the current process, process group, or user. The prio argument is a
value in the range -20 to 20. The default priority is 0; lower priori-
ties cause more favorable scheduling.
The getpriority() system call returns the highest priority (lowest numer-
ical value) enjoyed by any of the specified processes. The setpriority()
system call sets the priorities of all of the specified processes to the
specified value. Only the super-user may lower priorities.
RETURN VALUES
Since getpriority() can legitimately return the value -1, it is necessary
to clear the external variable errno prior to the call, then check it
afterward to determine if a -1 is an error or a legitimate value.
The setpriority() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise
the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate
the error.
ERRORS
The getpriority() and setpriority() system calls will fail if:
[ESRCH] No process was located using the which and who values
specified.
[EINVAL] The which argument was not one of PRIO_PROCESS,
PRIO_PGRP, or PRIO_USER.
In addition to the errors indicated above, setpriority() will fail if:
[EPERM] A process was located, but neither its effective nor
real user ID matched the effective user ID of the
caller.
[EACCES] A non super-user attempted to lower a process prior-
ity.
SEE ALSO
nice(1), fork(2), renice(8)
HISTORY
The getpriority() system call appeared in 4.2BSD.
FreeBSD 6.2 June 4, 1993 FreeBSD 6.2
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