diff --git a/man2/getrlimit.2 b/man2/getrlimit.2
index 3d8aa3819..0247b4be3 100644
--- a/man2/getrlimit.2
+++ b/man2/getrlimit.2
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
 .\" 2005-07-28, mtk, Added descriptions of RLIMIT_NICE and RLIMIT_RTPRIO
 .\" 2008-05-07, mtk / Peter Zijlstra, Added description of RLIMIT_RTTIME
 .\"
-.TH GETRLIMIT 2 2008-06-17 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH GETRLIMIT 2 2008-08-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 getrlimit, setrlimit \- get/set resource limits
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -414,6 +414,15 @@ A child process created via
 inherits its parent's resource limits.
 Resource limits are preserved across
 .BR execve (2).
+
+One can set the resource limits of the shell using the built-in
+.IR ulimit
+command
+.RI ( limit
+in
+.BR csh (1)).
+The shell's resource limits are inherited by the processes that
+it creates to execute commands.
 .SH BUGS
 In older Linux kernels, the
 .B SIGXCPU