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getrlimit.2: Resource limits are process-wide attributes shared by all threads 

This was already noted in pthreads(7), but bears repeating here.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -599,6 +599,9 @@ inherits its parent's resource limits.
Resource limits are preserved across
.BR execve (2).
.PP
Resource limits are per-process attributes that are shared
by all of the threads in a process.
.PP
Lowering the soft limit for a resource below the process's
current consumption of that resource will succeed
(but will prevent the process from further increasing