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From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)"
	<mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] getrlimit.2: Mention unit used by RLIMIT_CORE and RLIMIT_FSIZE
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2017 23:24:54 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fuc4semh.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <07aa1031-91b5-f1ca-b23f-858c06c3a9f8-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>


Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> 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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-03  2:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-01 20:27 [PATCH] getrlimit.2: Mention unit used by RLIMIT_CORE and RLIMIT_FSIZE Thiago Jung Bauermann
     [not found] ` <20170901202743.9678-1-bauerman-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2017-09-03  0:49   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
     [not found]     ` <07aa1031-91b5-f1ca-b23f-858c06c3a9f8-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2017-09-03  2:24       ` Thiago Jung Bauermann [this message]
     [not found]         ` <87fuc4semh.fsf-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2017-09-03 11:32           ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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