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man: ip-rule.8: Further clarify how to interpret priority value 

Despite the past changes, users seemed to get confused by the seemingly
contradictory relation of priority value and actual rule priority.

Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
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@ -95,7 +95,10 @@ Each policy routing rule consists of a
.B selector
and an
.B action predicate.
The RPDB is scanned in order of decreasing priority. The selector
The RPDB is scanned in order of decreasing priority (note that lower number
means higher priority, see the description of
.I PREFERENCE
below). The selector
of each rule is applied to {source address, destination address, incoming
interface, tos, fwmark} and, if the selector matches the packet,
the action is performed. The action predicate may return with success.
@ -225,7 +228,8 @@ value to match.
.BI priority " PREFERENCE"
the priority of this rule.
.I PREFERENCE
is an unsigned integer value, higher number means lower priority. Each rule
is an unsigned integer value, higher number means lower priority, and rules get
processed in order of increasing number. Each rule
should have an explicitly set
.I unique
priority value.