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

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.\" 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 2010-09-12 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH GETRLIMIT 2 2010-09-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
getrlimit, setrlimit \- get/set resource limits
.SH SYNOPSIS
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.BR csh (1)).
The shell's resource limits are inherited by the processes that
it creates to execute commands.
Ancient systems provided a
.BR vlimit ()
function with a similar purpose to
.BR setrlimit ().
For backward compatibility, glibc also provides
.BR vlimit ().
All new applications should be written using
.BR setrlimit ().
.SH BUGS
In older Linux kernels, the
.B SIGXCPU