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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2012-11-24 09:08:04 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2012-11-24 09:08:04 +0100 |
| commit | 6d0620d8659f0988b6b63ecb00b2653f2e076657 (patch) | |
| tree | 87abd35d8cf0006fe233dbf655f81558e37cb96e | |
| parent | b8d5a242bf3c8b3a515819330154f2c806de41ff (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-6d0620d8659f0988b6b63ecb00b2653f2e076657.tar.gz | |
getrlimit.2: Point reader at discussion of /proc/[pid]/limits in proc(5)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/getrlimit.2 | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man2/getrlimit.2 b/man2/getrlimit.2 index 3b71e66158..8225e143cc 100644 --- a/man2/getrlimit.2 +++ b/man2/getrlimit.2 @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ .\" 2008-05-07, mtk / Peter Zijlstra, Added description of RLIMIT_RTTIME .\" 2010-11-06, mtk: Added documentation of prlimit() .\" -.TH GETRLIMIT 2 2011-09-10 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH GETRLIMIT 2 2012-11-24 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME getrlimit, setrlimit, prlimit \- get/set resource limits .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -509,6 +509,11 @@ in The shell's resource limits are inherited by the processes that it creates to execute commands. +Since Linux 2.6.24, the resource limits of any process can be inspected via +.IR /proc/[pid]/limits ; +see +.BR proc (5). + Ancient systems provided a .BR vlimit () function with a similar purpose to |