diff --git a/man2/getrlimit.2 b/man2/getrlimit.2
index eff4df0cb..f608b928b 100644
--- a/man2/getrlimit.2
+++ b/man2/getrlimit.2
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
 .\" 2008-05-07, mtk / Peter Zijlstra, Added description of RLIMIT_RTTIME
 .\" 2010-11-06, mtk: Added documentation of prlimit()
 .\"
-.TH GETRLIMIT 2 2013-02-11 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH GETRLIMIT 2 2014-01-22 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 getrlimit, setrlimit, prlimit \- get/set resource limits
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -500,6 +500,11 @@ inherits its parent's resource limits.
 Resource limits are preserved across
 .BR execve (2).
 
+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).
+
 One can set the resource limits of the shell using the built-in
 .IR ulimit
 command