From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 09:59:49 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: capabilities.7: Clarify wording around increasing process nice value
X-Git-Tag: man-pages-5.08~123
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a3cb5856c8bb339f34a06792ea83de48a7375105;p=thirdparty%2Fman-pages.git

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>
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diff --git a/man7/capabilities.7 b/man7/capabilities.7
index 8f212beadf..bf9949ad22 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
-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;