From: Francesco Cosoleto <cosoleto@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:10:19 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: renice: update man page (nice rlimit was added to kernel)
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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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diff --git a/sys-utils/renice.1 b/sys-utils/renice.1
index 41ff3ec2..a06f5499 100644
--- a/sys-utils/renice.1
+++ b/sys-utils/renice.1
@@ -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