DOH!!! why oh why does man 1 nice have to come before man 2 nice?!? ;-) thanks, bill! pete Oegin nbs <nbs@sonic.net> > On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 05:43:54PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > is there a way for an executable written in C to change its own nice > > value? > > > > is there a system call that does this sort of thing? > > As seen in "man 2 nice":