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authorDan Kenigsberg <danken@redhat.com>2020-06-24 13:43:06 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2020-06-24 13:43:06 +0200
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capabilities.7: Clarify that CAP_SYS_NICE relates to *lowering* the nice value
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--man7/capabilities.72
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man7/capabilities.7 b/man7/capabilities.7
index a62df751ec..d7c50f716b 100644
--- a/man7/capabilities.7
+++ b/man7/capabilities.7
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ drop capabilities from the system-wide capability bounding set.
.PD 0
.RS
.IP * 2
-Give process a higher (i.e., more negative) nice value
+Lower the process nice value
.RB ( nice (2),
.BR setpriority (2))
and change the nice value for arbitrary processes;