Noted effect of fork() and execve() on resource limits.

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Michael Kerrisk 2006-07-22 14:37:54 +00:00
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@ -394,6 +394,12 @@ when
.IR rlim->rlim_cur
was greater than
.IR rlim->rlim_max .
.SH NOTES
A child process created via
.BR fork (2)
inherits its parents resource limits.
Resource limits are preserved across
.BR execve (2).
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
SVr4, 4.3BSD.
.BR RLIMIT_MEMLOCK