capabilities.7: Clarify that CAP_SYS_NICE relates to *lowering* the nice value

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

diff --git a/man7/capabilities.7 b/man7/capabilities.7
index a62df751ec943b11cb36cdee6228298efd6ac27c..d7c50f716b6efd8b088e0033418abe640708f704 100644 (file)
--- 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;