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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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@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ drop capabilities from the system-wide capability bounding set.
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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;