SETPRIORITY(3P)

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

okay bestie, before we even start, real talk: this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual 💖

and like… the Linux implementation of this interface may differ?? so if you're on Linux, go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the deets on Linux behavior 👀 or honestly the interface might just not be implemented on Linux at all, no cap, that's a thing that can happen 😭

lowkey read this whole thing with that in mind, it's giving "spec, not implementation" energy

✨ NAME ✨

setpriority — set the nice value 🎀

like yes that's the whole name section, she's short and she knows it 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <sys/resource.h>

int setpriority(int which, id_t who, int nice);

that's it, that's the whole vibe ✨

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Refer to getpriority().

fr fr that's literally it — the description is just pointing you at her sister function 🫶 go read that one, bestie, setpriority is not about to explain herself twice 😭

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

okay so legal stuff, but make it cute (it's still the same legal stuff tho, don't @ me):

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. 🌈

In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. like it's the final boss, the main character, the one that wins any argument 💀 The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. 🙈 To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 this one came to you from IEEE/The Open Group, dated 2017, under the very iconic title SETPRIORITY(3P) — go set some nice values, slay, and remember: check the Linux page if you're on Linux 🦋💖✨