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getrlimit.2: Describe the range of the RLIMIT_NICE limit 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -293,6 +293,9 @@ or
.BR nice (2).
The actual ceiling for the nice value is calculated as
.IR "20\ \-\ rlim_cur" .
The useful range for this limit is thus from 1
(corresponding to a nice value of 19) to 40
(corresponding to a nice value of -20).
(This strangeness occurs because negative numbers cannot be specified
as resource limit values, since they typically have special meanings.
For example,