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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2017-10-09 15:48:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2017-10-09 15:48:47 +0200 |
| commit | da06433e6dca4db6a200b87d0c812bf4ce7278fe (patch) | |
| tree | 7d0064dc1bc60b2c9109686d1b94417ac2ee51db | |
| parent | 63345f2229f06d6b712ad7cbf3e1dd7d0bcf9a21 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-da06433e6dca4db6a200b87d0c812bf4ce7278fe.tar.gz | |
getrlimit.2: Make it clear RLIMIT_NPROC is a limit on current number of processes
https://twitter.com/silentbicycle/status/893849097903505409
Reported-by: Scott Vokes <vokes.s@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/getrlimit.2 | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man2/getrlimit.2 b/man2/getrlimit.2 index 5876c6f7c..24091137e 100644 --- a/man2/getrlimit.2 +++ b/man2/getrlimit.2 @@ -344,10 +344,11 @@ For further details, see .BR unix (7). .TP .B RLIMIT_NPROC -This is the maximum number of processes +This is a limit on the number of extant process (or, more precisely on Linux, threads) -that can be created for the real user ID of the calling process. -Upon encountering this limit, +for the real user ID of the calling process. +So long as the current number of processes belonging to this +process's real user ID is greater than or equal to this limit, .BR fork (2) fails with the error .BR EAGAIN . |