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getrlimit.2: Reword/relocate discussion of BSD's historical RLIMIT_OFILE 

The old sentence sat on its own in an odd place, and anyway the
modern BSDs use the name RLIMIT_NOFILE.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
.\" 2005-07-28, mtk, Added descriptions of RLIMIT_NICE and RLIMIT_RTPRIO
.\" 2008-05-07, mtk / Peter Zijlstra, Added description of RLIMIT_RTTIME
.\"
.TH GETRLIMIT 2 2008-08-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH GETRLIMIT 2 2008-10-06 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
getrlimit, setrlimit \- get/set resource limits
.SH SYNOPSIS
@ -278,6 +278,9 @@ Attempts
etc.)
to exceed this limit yield the error
.BR EMFILE .
(Historically, this limit was named
.B RLIMIT_OFILE
on BSD.)
.TP
.B RLIMIT_NPROC
The maximum number of processes (or, more precisely on Linux, threads)
@ -352,10 +355,6 @@ Upon reaching this limit, a
signal is generated.
To handle this signal, a process must employ an alternate signal stack
.RB ( sigaltstack (2)).
.PP
.B RLIMIT_OFILE
is the BSD name for
.BR RLIMIT_NOFILE .
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
On success, zero is returned.
On error, \-1 is returned, and