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

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On 09/03/2017 04:24 AM, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
> 
> 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.

No worries. 

Cheers,

Michael

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