Noted that the nice value rande is -20..20 on some systems

diff --git a/man2/getpriority.2 b/man2/getpriority.2
index dc12a833715f133c469daa4cc9ef3ba3d9f0c696..d27768edc94ea6bf3a1cc667ec4a9b464cb4a355 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/getpriority.2
+++ b/man2/getpriority.2
@@ -152,11 +152,13 @@ the effective user ID of the caller to match
 the real or effective user ID of the process \fIwho\fP.
 .LP
 The actual priority range varies between kernel versions.
-Linux before 1.3.36 had -infinity..15. Linux since 1.3.43 has -20..19,
+Linux before 1.3.36 had -infinity..15. Linux since 1.3.43 has \-20..19,
 and the system call getpriority returns 40..1 for these values
 (since negative numbers are error codes).
 The library call converts N into 20-N.
 .LP
+On some systems, the range of nice values is \-20..20.
+.LP
 Including
 .I <sys/time.h>
 is not required these days, but increases portability.