diff --git a/man2/getrlimit.2 b/man2/getrlimit.2
index 02ff63c96..b9c606342 100644
--- a/man2/getrlimit.2
+++ b/man2/getrlimit.2
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
 .\" 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
@@ -428,6 +428,15 @@ in
 .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