From 625b5f5a49a61843ba37bf562be81cbfa5f2b10d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 11:31:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] getrlimit.2: Update text on RLIMIT_NOFILE ceiling to refer to
 /proc/sys/fs/file-max

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
---
 man2/getrlimit.2 | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man2/getrlimit.2 b/man2/getrlimit.2
index ca25413ca..b02e79871 100644
--- a/man2/getrlimit.2
+++ b/man2/getrlimit.2
@@ -487,8 +487,10 @@ An unprivileged process tried to raise the hard limit; the
 capability is required to do this.
 Or, the caller tried to increase the hard
 .B RLIMIT_NOFILE
-limit above the current kernel maximum
-.RB ( NR_OPEN ).
+limit above the maximum defined by
+.IR /proc/sys/fs/nr_open
+(see
+.BR proc (5))
 Or, the calling process did not have permission to set limits
 for the process specified by
 .IR pid .