From: Dan Kenigsberg <danken@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 11:43:06 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: capabilities.7: Clarify that CAP_SYS_NICE relates to *lowering* the nice value
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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>
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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;