capabilities.7: Clarify wording around increasing process nice value

The fact that a more negative nice value means higher
priority is a continuing source of confusion.

Reported-by: Dan Kenigsberg <danken@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

diff --git a/man7/capabilities.7 b/man7/capabilities.7
index 8f212beadf75a7a861acf2a4a0c88fcb832ecc19..bf9949ad2259bd784532b59b2bcd3143b6c4f201 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
-Raise process nice value
+Give process a higher (i.e., more negative) nice value
 .RB ( nice (2),
 .BR setpriority (2))
 and change the nice value for arbitrary processes;