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

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

Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) [off-list ref] writes:

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Hello Thiago,

On 09/01/2017 10:27 PM, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:

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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!

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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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