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authorTed Unangst <tedu@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-11-20 03:16:33 +0000
committerTed Unangst <tedu@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-11-20 03:16:33 +0000
commita0bd2bb39b3d038566fd7e633c5878b2f3eee4d0 (patch)
tree2b83c6d1611dd29488b6aae6447be96e5985cd03 /lib/libc/sys/getrlimit.2
parent38b0a47651eff1523bd6332a4f4e26c19820bc4b (diff)
sbrk is long dead. clarify that the data segment is malloc and anon mmap.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/getrlimit.2')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/getrlimit.211
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/getrlimit.2 b/lib/libc/sys/getrlimit.2
index 6c897202862..4bd4a1776e0 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/getrlimit.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/getrlimit.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: getrlimit.2,v 1.22 2013/07/17 05:42:11 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: getrlimit.2,v 1.23 2014/11/20 03:16:32 tedu Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: getrlimit.2,v 1.8 1995/10/12 15:40:58 jtc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)getrlimit.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 17 2013 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 20 2014 $
.Dt GETRLIMIT 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -64,9 +64,10 @@ The maximum amount of CPU time (in seconds) to be used by
each process.
.It Li RLIMIT_DATA
The maximum size (in bytes) of the data segment for a process;
-this defines how far a program may extend its break with the
-.Xr sbrk 2
-system call.
+this includes memory allocated via
+.Xr malloc 2
+and all other anonymous memory mapped via
+.Xr mmap 2 .
.It Li RLIMIT_FSIZE
The largest size (in bytes) file that may be created.
.It Li RLIMIT_MEMLOCK