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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-10-05 05:42:32 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-10-05 05:42:32 +0200 |
| commit | 00e8730f7834bd6904b241318931bf22c1f63d0e (patch) | |
| tree | a2921e7a4b07d698a566911e24065fca38f28f3b /man2/getrlimit.2 | |
| parent | f3504b02920b742b8bf838840c495add8f958999 (diff) | |
getrlimit.2: Reword/relocate discussion of BSD's historical RLIMIT_OFILE
The old sentence sat on its own in an odd place, and anyway the
modern BSDs use the name RLIMIT_NOFILE.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man2/getrlimit.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/getrlimit.2 | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man2/getrlimit.2 b/man2/getrlimit.2 index 0247b4be..ea92a1aa 100644 --- a/man2/getrlimit.2 +++ b/man2/getrlimit.2 @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ .\" 2005-07-28, mtk, Added descriptions of RLIMIT_NICE and RLIMIT_RTPRIO .\" 2008-05-07, mtk / Peter Zijlstra, Added description of RLIMIT_RTTIME .\" -.TH GETRLIMIT 2 2008-08-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH GETRLIMIT 2 2008-10-06 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME getrlimit, setrlimit \- get/set resource limits .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -278,6 +278,9 @@ Attempts etc.) to exceed this limit yield the error .BR EMFILE . +(Historically, this limit was named +.B RLIMIT_OFILE +on BSD.) .TP .B RLIMIT_NPROC The maximum number of processes (or, more precisely on Linux, threads) @@ -352,10 +355,6 @@ Upon reaching this limit, a signal is generated. To handle this signal, a process must employ an alternate signal stack .RB ( sigaltstack (2)). -.PP -.B RLIMIT_OFILE -is the BSD name for -.BR RLIMIT_NOFILE . .SH "RETURN VALUE" On success, zero is returned. On error, \-1 is returned, and |