HP-UX Reference (11i v3 07/02) - 2 System Calls (vol 5)

getpriority(2) getpriority(2)

[EACCES] The calling process does not have access rights to change one or more of the indicated

processes. All processes for which access is allowed are still affected.

[EINVAL] which is not one of the choices listed above, or who is out of range.

[EPERM] The calling process attempted to change the priority of a process to a smaller priority

value without having appropriate privileges.

[ESRCH] Processes indicated by which and who cannot be found.

WARNINGS

getpriority()

can return -1 both when it successfully ﬁnds a priority of

-1 and when it fails. To

determine whether a failure occurred, set

errno to

0 before calling getpriority()

, then examine

errno after the call returns.

AUTHOR

getpriority()

and setpriority()

were developed by the University of California, Berkeley.