Hello Eugene, Ping on the below... Thanks, Michael On 10/14/18 9:36 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Hello Eugene, > > On 09/19/2018 07:12 PM, Eugene Syromyatnikov wrote: >> Signed-off-by: Eugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> man2/getrlimit.2 | 5 +++++ >> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/man2/getrlimit.2 b/man2/getrlimit.2 >> index fe821e1..3a4d48f 100644 >> --- a/man2/getrlimit.2 >> +++ b/man2/getrlimit.2 >> @@ -740,6 +740,11 @@ when >> .I rlim\->rlim_cur >> was greater than >> .IR rlim\->rlim_max . >> +.\" d3561f78fd379a7110e46c87964ba7aa4120235c >> +.PP >> +Linux doesn't return an error when an attempt to set >> +.B RLIMIT_CPU >> +has failed, for compatibility reasons. > > I need some help with this. Can I see an example? > As far as I can tell (from testing), the kernel only > fails to return an error when trying to set the soft > limit to infinity while the hard limit is less than > infinity. > > Thanks, > > Michael > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/