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.
Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <redacted>
---
man2/getrlimit.2 | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man2/getrlimit.2 b/man2/getrlimit.2
index 84f04d695ea2..f2c5297526d7 100644
--- a/man2/getrlimit.2
+++ b/man2/getrlimit.2
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ This is the maximum size of a
.I core
file (see
.BR core (5))
-that the process may dump.
+in bytes that the process may dump.
When 0 no core dump files are created.
When nonzero, larger dumps are truncated to this size.
.TP
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ which fail with the error
upon encountering the soft limit of this resource.
.TP
.B RLIMIT_FSIZE
-This is the maximum size of files that the process may create.
+This is the maximum size in bytes of files that the process may create.
Attempts to extend a file beyond this limit result in delivery of a
.B SIGXFSZ
signal.
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