Re: [PATCH] getrlimit.2: Mention unit used by RLIMIT_CORE and RLIMIT_FSIZE

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Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hello Thiago,
>
> On 09/01/2017 10:27 PM, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
>> It would have been obvious that these limits are in bytes, except that
>> "ulimit -a" in at least bash, dash and zsh says that they're in blocks.
>> This confused me, so I had to check the kernel source code.
>> 
>> My understanding is that they are indeed in bytes, so mention this
>> information in the man page.
>
> Thanks. That was a silly deficiency on the man page. Patch applied.

Thanks!

> I also fixed a similar problem with RLIMIT_DATA.

I didn't occur to me to check the other resources. Thanks for doing that.

-- 
Thiago Jung Bauermann
IBM Linux Technology Center

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