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| -rw-r--r-- | man2/getpriority.2 | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man2/getpriority.2 b/man2/getpriority.2 index 8f9754ffd0..4a1ff91a9d 100644 --- a/man2/getpriority.2 +++ b/man2/getpriority.2 @@ -118,7 +118,13 @@ soft limit; see .BR getrlimit (2) for details. .SH RETURN VALUE -Since +On success, +.BR getpriority () +returns the calling thread's nice value, which may be a negative number. +On error, it returns \-1 and sets +.I errno +to indicate the cause of the error. +Since a successful call to .BR getpriority () can legitimately return the value \-1, it is necessary to clear the external variable |