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.\" Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@yggdrasil.com>
.\" Copyright (C) 2002-2008, 2017, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
.\" Copyright (C) 2023, Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
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.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
.\"
.TH proc_oid_limits 5 2023-08-15 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.SH NAME
/proc/pid/limits \- resource limits
.SH DESCRIPTION
.TP
.IR /proc/ pid /limits " (since Linux 2.6.24)"
This file displays the soft limit, hard limit, and units of measurement
for each of the process's resource limits (see
.BR getrlimit (2)).
Up to and including Linux 2.6.35,
this file is protected to allow reading only by the real UID of the process.
Since Linux 2.6.36,
.\" commit 3036e7b490bf7878c6dae952eec5fb87b1106589
this file is readable by all users on the system.
.\" FIXME Describe /proc/[pid]/loginuid
.\"       Added in Linux 2.6.11; updating requires CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL
.\"       CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR proc (5)