Issue 10784: adds os.getpriority() and os.setpriority() functions.

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
index 78d66fe..c0cb7cf 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
@@ -71,16 +71,22 @@ New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules
 os
 --
 
-The :mod:`os` module has a new :func:`~os.sendfile` function which provides an
-efficent "zero-copy" way for copying data from one file (or socket) descriptor
-to another.
-The phrase "zero-copy" refers to the fact that all of the copying of data
-between the two descriptors is done entirely by the kernel, with no copying of
-data into userspace buffers.
-:func:`~os.sendfile` can be used to efficiently copy data from a file on disk to
-a network socket, e.g. for downloading a file.
-
-(Patch submitted by Ross Lagerwall and Giampaolo Rodolà in :issue:`10882`.)
+* The :mod:`os` module has a new :func:`~os.sendfile` function which provides
+  an efficent "zero-copy" way for copying data from one file (or socket)
+  descriptor to another. The phrase "zero-copy" refers to the fact that all of
+  the copying of data between the two descriptors is done entirely by the
+  kernel, with no copying of data into userspace buffers. :func:`~os.sendfile`
+  can be used to efficiently copy data from a file on disk to a network socket,
+  e.g. for downloading a file.
+
+  (Patch submitted by Ross Lagerwall and Giampaolo Rodolà in :issue:`10882`.)
+
+* The :mod:`os` module has two new functions: :func:`~os.getpriority` and
+  :func:`~os.setpriority`. They can be used to get or set process
+  niceness/priority in a fashion similar to :func:`os.nice` but extended to all
+  processes instead of just the current one.
+
+  (Patch submitted by Giampaolo Rodolà in :issue:`10784`.)
 
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