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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-06-17 10:51:52 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-06-17 10:51:52 +0000 |
commit | 4ad94864781f48b1a4b77f9cfb934622bf756ba1 (patch) | |
tree | 3900955c1886e6d2570fea7125ee1f01bafe876d /upstream/debian-unstable/man2/getrlimit.2 | |
parent | Adding upstream version 4.22.0. (diff) | |
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Adding upstream version 4.23.0.upstream/4.23.0
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/upstream/debian-unstable/man2/getrlimit.2 b/upstream/debian-unstable/man2/getrlimit.2 index afc2c229..d9b375db 100644 --- a/upstream/debian-unstable/man2/getrlimit.2 +++ b/upstream/debian-unstable/man2/getrlimit.2 @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ .\" 2008-05-07, mtk / Peter Zijlstra, Added description of RLIMIT_RTTIME .\" 2010-11-06, mtk: Added documentation of prlimit() .\" -.TH getrlimit 2 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.TH getrlimit 2 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages 6.8" .SH NAME getrlimit, setrlimit, prlimit \- get/set resource limits .SH LIBRARY @@ -51,20 +51,20 @@ Standard C library .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include <sys/resource.h> -.PP +.P .BI "int getrlimit(int " resource ", struct rlimit *" rlim ); .BI "int setrlimit(int " resource ", const struct rlimit *" rlim ); -.PP +.P .BI "int prlimit(pid_t " pid ", int " resource , .BI " const struct rlimit *_Nullable " new_limit , .BI " struct rlimit *_Nullable " old_limit ); .fi -.PP +.P .RS -4 Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see .BR feature_test_macros (7)): .RE -.PP +.P .BR prlimit (): .nf _GNU_SOURCE @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ system calls get and set resource limits. Each resource has an associated soft and hard limit, as defined by the .I rlimit structure: -.PP +.P .in +4n .EX struct rlimit { @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ struct rlimit { }; .EE .in -.PP +.P The soft limit is the value that the kernel enforces for the corresponding resource. The hard limit acts as a ceiling for the soft limit: @@ -97,14 +97,14 @@ A privileged process (under Linux: one with the .B CAP_SYS_RESOURCE capability in the initial user namespace) may make arbitrary changes to either limit value. -.PP +.P The value .B RLIM_INFINITY denotes no limit on a resource (both in the structure returned by .BR getrlimit () and in the structure passed to .BR setrlimit ()). -.PP +.P The .I resource argument must be one of: @@ -450,14 +450,14 @@ system call combines and extends the functionality of and .BR getrlimit (). It can be used to both set and get the resource limits of an arbitrary process. -.PP +.P The .I resource argument has the same meaning as for .BR setrlimit () and .BR getrlimit (). -.PP +.P If the .I new_limit argument is not NULL, then the @@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ in the .I rlimit structure pointed to by .IR old_limit . -.PP +.P The .I pid argument specifies the ID of the process on which the call is to operate. @@ -556,7 +556,6 @@ T{ .BR prlimit () T} Thread safety MT-Safe .TE -.sp 1 .SH STANDARDS .TP .BR getrlimit () @@ -566,7 +565,7 @@ POSIX.1-2008. .TP .BR prlimit () Linux. -.PP +.P .B RLIMIT_MEMLOCK and .B RLIMIT_NPROC @@ -598,15 +597,15 @@ A child process created via inherits its parent's resource limits. Resource limits are preserved across .BR execve (2). -.PP +.P Resource limits are per-process attributes that are shared by all of the threads in a process. -.PP +.P Lowering the soft limit for a resource below the process's current consumption of that resource will succeed (but will prevent the process from further increasing its consumption of the resource). -.PP +.P One can set the resource limits of the shell using the built-in .I ulimit command @@ -615,12 +614,12 @@ in .BR csh (1)). The shell's resource limits are inherited by the processes that it creates to execute commands. -.PP +.P Since Linux 2.6.24, the resource limits of any process can be inspected via .IR /proc/ pid /limits ; see .BR proc (5). -.PP +.P Ancient systems provided a .BR vlimit () function with a similar purpose to @@ -638,7 +637,7 @@ wrapper functions no longer invoke the corresponding system calls, but instead employ .BR prlimit (), for the reasons described in BUGS. -.PP +.P The name of the glibc wrapper function is .BR prlimit (); the underlying system call is @@ -652,7 +651,7 @@ signals delivered when a process encountered the soft and hard .B RLIMIT_CPU limits were delivered one (CPU) second later than they should have been. This was fixed in Linux 2.6.8. -.PP +.P In Linux 2.6.x kernels before Linux 2.6.17, a .B RLIMIT_CPU limit of 0 is wrongly treated as "no limit" (like @@ -660,12 +659,12 @@ limit of 0 is wrongly treated as "no limit" (like Since Linux 2.6.17, setting a limit of 0 does have an effect, but is actually treated as a limit of 1 second. .\" see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114008066530167&w=2 -.PP +.P A kernel bug means that .\" See https://lwn.net/Articles/145008/ .B RLIMIT_RTPRIO does not work in Linux 2.6.12; the problem is fixed in Linux 2.6.13. -.PP +.P In Linux 2.6.12, there was an off-by-one mismatch between the priority ranges returned by .BR getpriority (2) @@ -676,7 +675,7 @@ was calculated as .IR "19\ \-\ rlim_cur" . This was fixed in Linux 2.6.13. .\" see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112256338703880&w=2 -.PP +.P Since Linux 2.6.12, .\" The relevant patch, sent to LKML, seems to be .\" http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/273462 @@ -703,7 +702,7 @@ portable applications should avoid relying on this Linux-specific behavior. The Linux-specific .B RLIMIT_RTTIME limit exhibits the same behavior when the soft limit is encountered. -.PP +.P Kernels before Linux 2.4.22 did not diagnose the error .B EINVAL for @@ -713,12 +712,12 @@ when was greater than .IR rlim\->rlim_max . .\" d3561f78fd379a7110e46c87964ba7aa4120235c -.PP +.P Linux doesn't return an error when an attempt to set .B RLIMIT_CPU has failed, for compatibility reasons. .\" -.SS Representation of """large""" resource limit values on 32-bit platforms +.SS Representation of \[dq]large\[dq] resource limit values on 32-bit platforms The glibc .BR getrlimit () and @@ -753,7 +752,7 @@ represent file offsets\[em]that is, as wide as a 64-bit .B off_t (assuming a program compiled with .IR _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 ). -.PP +.P To work around this kernel limitation, if a program tried to set a resource limit to a value larger than can be represented in a 32-bit @@ -763,7 +762,7 @@ then the glibc wrapper function silently converted the limit value to .BR RLIM_INFINITY . In other words, the requested resource limit setting was silently ignored. -.PP +.P Since glibc 2.13, .\" https://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12201 glibc works around the limitations of the @@ -779,7 +778,7 @@ as wrapper functions that call .SH EXAMPLES The program below demonstrates the use of .BR prlimit (). -.PP +.P .\" SRC BEGIN (getrlimit.c) .EX #define _GNU_SOURCE |