diff --git a/man2/getrlimit.2 b/man2/getrlimit.2
index 3b71e6615..8225e143c 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 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
@@ -509,6 +509,11 @@ in
 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