sched.7: Mention RLIMIT_NICE in the discussion of the nice value

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@ -404,6 +404,13 @@ to a process whenever there is any other
higher priority load on the system,
and makes high nice values (\-20) deliver most of the CPU to applications
that require it (e.g., some audio applications).
On Linux, the
.BR RLIMIT_NICE
resource limit can be used to define a limit to which
an unprivileged process's nice value can be raised; see
.BR setrlimit (2)
for details.
.\"
.SS SCHED_BATCH: Scheduling batch processes
(Since Linux 2.6.16.)