Change priority of the current process in C

Question

On Windows I can do:

HANDLE hCurrentProcess = GetCurrentProcess();

SetPriorityClass(hCurrentProcess, ABOVE_NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS);

How can I d

Answer 1

@ allain

Can you lower your own process' priority without being superuser?

Sure. Be aware, however, that this is a one way street. You can't even get back to where you started. And even fairly small reductions in priority can have startlingly large effects on running time when there is significant load on the system.