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renice: update man page (nice rlimit was added to kernel) 

Non-root tasks can raise nice priority on systems running Linux 2.6.12 or higher
if the nice resource limit is set.

Signed-off-by: Francesco Cosoleto <cosoleto@gmail.com>
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Francesco Cosoleto 2010-11-24 23:10:19 +01:00 committed by Karel Zak
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@ -107,11 +107,11 @@ all processes owned by users daemon and root.
.Pp
Users other than the super-user may only alter the priority of
processes they own,
and can only monotonically increase their ``nice value''
and can only monotonically increase their ``nice value'' (for security reasons)
within the range 0 to
.Dv PRIO_MAX
(20).
(This prevents overriding administrative fiats.)
(20),
unless a nice resource limit is set (Linux 2.6.12 and higher).
The super-user
may alter the priority of any process
and set the priority to any value in the range