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@@ -488,8 +488,8 @@ should be killed in an out-of-memory (OOM) situation.
The kernel uses this value for a bit-shift operation of the process's
.IR oom_score
value:
-valid values are in the range -16 to +15,
-plus the special value -17,
+valid values are in the range \-16 to +15,
+plus the special value \-17,
which disables OOM-killing altogether for this process.
A positive score increases the likelihood of this
process being killed by the OOM-killer;