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>
.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