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getrlimit.2: Point reader at discussion of /proc/[pid]/limits in proc(5) 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.\" 2008-05-07, mtk / Peter Zijlstra, Added description of RLIMIT_RTTIME
.\" 2010-11-06, mtk: Added documentation of prlimit()
.\"
.TH GETRLIMIT 2 2011-09-10 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH GETRLIMIT 2 2012-11-24 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
getrlimit, setrlimit, prlimit \- get/set resource limits
.SH SYNOPSIS
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The shell's resource limits are inherited by the processes that
it creates to execute commands.
Since Linux 2.6.24, the resource limits of any process can be inspected via
.IR /proc/[pid]/limits ;
see
.BR proc (5).
Ancient systems provided a
.BR vlimit ()
function with a similar purpose to