getrusage.2: Add mention of the ancient vlimit() function

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.\" document ru_maxrss
.\" 2010-05-24, mtk, enhanced description of various fields
.\"
.TH GETRUSAGE 2 2010-06-14 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH GETRUSAGE 2 2010-09-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
getrusage \- get resource usage
.SH SYNOPSIS
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The structure definition shown at the start of this page
was taken from 4.3BSD Reno.
Ancient systems provided a
.BR vtimes ()
function with a similar purpose to
.BR getrusage ().
For backward compatibility, glibc also provides
.BR vtimes ().
All new applications should be written using
.BR getrusage ().
See also the description of
.IR /proc/PID/stat
in