From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thiago Jung Bauermann Subject: Re: [PATCH] getrlimit.2: Mention unit used by RLIMIT_CORE and RLIMIT_FSIZE Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2017 23:24:54 -0300 Message-ID: <87fuc4semh.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20170901202743.9678-1-bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <07aa1031-91b5-f1ca-b23f-858c06c3a9f8@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: In-reply-to: <07aa1031-91b5-f1ca-b23f-858c06c3a9f8-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html