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Dag-Erling Smørgrav 2016-09-30 13:04:18 +00:00
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@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" @(#)getrlimit.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd August 19, 2015
.Dd September 30, 2016
.Dt GETRLIMIT 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ For example, if the RSS hard limit is exceeded, nothing happens.
.Pp
The
.Vt rlimit
structure is used to specify the hard and soft limits on a resource,
structure is used to specify the hard and soft limits on a resource.
.Bd -literal -offset indent
struct rlimit {
rlim_t rlim_cur; /* current (soft) limit */
@ -183,9 +183,9 @@ soft limit will cause the write to fail and a signal
to be
generated; this normally terminates the process, but may be caught.
When
the soft cpu time limit is exceeded, a signal
the soft cpu time limit is exceeded, a
.Dv SIGXCPU
is sent to the
signal is sent to the
offending process.
.Pp
When most operations would allocate more virtual memory than allowed by the
@ -198,7 +198,9 @@ A notable exception is stack extension, described above.
If stack extension would allocate more virtual memory than allowed by the soft
limit of
.Dv RLIMIT_AS ,
the signal SIGSEGV will be delivered.
a
.Dv SIGSEGV
signal will be delivered.
The caller is free to raise the soft address space limit up to the hard limit
and retry the allocation.
.Sh RETURN VALUES