getpriority

• getpriority WHICH,WHO

  Returns the current priority for a process, a process group, or a user. (See getpriority(2).) Will raise a fatal exception if used on a machine that doesn't implement getpriority(2).

  WHICH can be any of PRIO_PROCESS , PRIO_PGRP or PRIO_USER imported from RESOURCE CONSTANTS in POSIX.

  Portability issues: getpriority in perlport.