From b270eba9462fa69b2c3da84dc3bd8ce12d3f0fef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:26:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added EINVAL error for rlim_cur > rlim_max when calling
 setrlimit().

---
 man2/getrlimit.2 | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man2/getrlimit.2 b/man2/getrlimit.2
index 08597a5cd..107d63a2c 100644
--- a/man2/getrlimit.2
+++ b/man2/getrlimit.2
@@ -339,7 +339,12 @@ points outside the accessible address space.
 .TP
 .B EINVAL
 .I resource
-is not valid.
+is not valid;
+or, for
+.BR setrlimit ():
+.IR rlim->rlim_cur 
+was greater than
+.IR rlim->rlim_max .
 .TP
 .B EPERM
 An unprivileged process tried to use \fBsetrlimit\fP() to
@@ -373,6 +378,15 @@ was calculated as
 .IR "19\ \-\ rlim_cur" .
 This was fixed in kernel 2.6.13.
 .\" see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112256338703880&w=2
+
+Kernels before 2.4.22 did not diagnose the error
+.B EINVAL
+for 
+.BR setrlimit ()
+when
+.IR rlim->rlim_cur 
+was greater than
+.IR rlim->rlim_max .
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 SVr4, 4.3BSD.
 .BR RLIMIT_MEMLOCK