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getrlimit.2: Mention unit used by RLIMIT_CORE and RLIMIT_FSIZE 

It would have been obvious that these limits are in bytes, except that
"ulimit -a" in at least bash, dash and zsh says that they're in blocks.
This confused me, so I had to check the kernel source code.

My understanding is that they are indeed in bytes, so mention this
information in the man page.

Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Thiago Jung Bauermann 2017-09-01 17:27:43 -03:00 committed by Michael Kerrisk
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@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ This is the maximum size of a
.I core
file (see
.BR core (5))
that the process may dump.
in bytes that the process may dump.
When 0 no core dump files are created.
When nonzero, larger dumps are truncated to this size.
.TP
@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ which fail with the error
upon encountering the soft limit of this resource.
.TP
.B RLIMIT_FSIZE
This is the maximum size of files that the process may create.
This is the maximum size in bytes of files that the process may create.
Attempts to extend a file beyond this limit result in delivery of a
.B SIGXFSZ
signal.