From 8b6aacb004b8f2c4707daadeafb121ee9e7ccba2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 17:57:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] tweak RLIMIT_SIGPENDING details

---
 man2/getrlimit.2 | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man2/getrlimit.2 b/man2/getrlimit.2
index 64b7c2623..f0f2e5244 100644
--- a/man2/getrlimit.2
+++ b/man2/getrlimit.2
@@ -247,11 +247,16 @@ specifying
 .\" talk of making it do something continues in LKML -- MTK, Nov 04
 .TP
 .B RLIMIT_SIGPENDING
-Specifies the limit on the number of signals (see
-.BR sigqueue (2)
-and 
-.BR signal (7))
+Specifies the limit on the number of signals
 that may be queued for the real user ID of the calling process.
+Both standard and real-time signals are counted for the purpose of
+checking this limit.
+However, the limit is only enforced for 
+.BR sigqueue (2);
+it is always possible to use
+.BR kill (2)
+to queue one instance of any of the signals that are not already
+queued to the process.
 (Since Linux 2.6.8.)
 .\" This replaces the /proc/sys/kernel/rtsig-max system-wide limit
 .\" that was present in kernels <= 2.6.7.  MTK Dec 04