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diff --git a/usr/src/man/man1/limit.1 b/usr/src/man/man1/limit.1 index 7843fafb2f..34952062af 100644 --- a/usr/src/man/man1/limit.1 +++ b/usr/src/man/man1/limit.1 @@ -44,18 +44,16 @@ .\" Portions Copyright (c) 1982-2007 AT&T Knowledge Ventures .\" Copyright (c) 2007, Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved .\" -.TH LIMIT 1 "Nov 2, 2007" +.TH LIMIT 1 "September 12, 2020" .SH NAME limit, ulimit, unlimit \- set or get limitations on the system resources available to the current shell and its descendents .SH SYNOPSIS -.LP .nf \fB/usr/bin/ulimit\fR [\fB-f\fR] [\fIblocks\fR] .fi .SS "sh" -.LP .nf \fBulimit\fR [\fB-\fR [HS] [a | cdfnstv]] .fi @@ -66,7 +64,6 @@ available to the current shell and its descendents .fi .SS "csh" -.LP .nf \fBlimit\fR [\fB-h\fR] [\fIresource\fR [\fIlimit\fR]] .fi @@ -77,27 +74,21 @@ available to the current shell and its descendents .fi .SS "ksh" -.LP .nf \fBulimit\fR [\fB-HSacdfnstv\fR] [\fIlimit\fR] .fi .SS "ksh93" -.LP .nf \fBulimit\fR [\fB-HSacdfmnpstv\fR] [\fIlimit\fR] .fi .SH DESCRIPTION .SS "/usr/bin/ulimit" -.sp -.LP The \fBulimit\fR utility sets or reports the file-size writing limit imposed on files written by the shell and its child processes (files of any size can be read). Only a process with appropriate privileges can increase the limit. .SS "sh" -.sp -.LP The Bourne shell built-in function, \fBulimit\fR, prints or sets hard or soft resource limits. These limits are described in \fBgetrlimit\fR(2). .sp @@ -107,7 +98,7 @@ number of limits can be printed at one time. The \fB-a\fR option prints all limits. .sp .LP -If \fIlimit\fR is present, \fBulimit\fR sets the specified limit to\fIlimit\fR. +If \fIlimit\fR is present, \fBulimit\fR sets the specified limit to \fIlimit\fR. The string \fBunlimited\fR requests that the current limit, if any, be removed. Any user can set a soft limit to any value less than or equal to the hard limit. Any user can lower a hard limit. Only a user with appropriate privileges @@ -185,8 +176,6 @@ Maximum size of virtual memory (in Kbytes) .RE .SS "csh" -.sp -.LP The C-shell built-in function, \fBlimit\fR, limits the consumption by the current process or any process it spawns, each not to exceed \fIlimit\fR on the specified \fIresource\fR. The string \fBunlimited\fR requests that the current @@ -328,8 +317,6 @@ Remove corresponding hard limits. Only the privileged user can do this. .RE .SS "ksh" -.sp -.LP The Korn shell built-in function, \fBulimit\fR, sets or displays a resource limit. The available resources limits are listed below. Many systems do not contain one or more of these limits. The limit for a specified resource is set @@ -421,15 +408,11 @@ The number of K-bytes for virtual memory. .LP If no option is specified, \fB-f\fR is assumed. .SS "Per-Shell Memory Parameters" -.sp -.LP The \fBheapsize\fR, \fBdatasize\fR, and \fBstacksize\fR parameters are not system tunables. The only controls for these are hard limits, set in a shell startup file, or system-wide soft limits, which, for the current version of the Solaris OS, is 2^64bytes. .SS "ksh93" -.sp -.LP \fBulimit\fR sets or displays resource limits. These limits apply to the current process and to each child process created after the resource limit has been set. If \fIlimit\fR is specified, the resource limit is set, otherwise, @@ -681,8 +664,6 @@ Specifies the process size in Kbytes. .RE .SH OPTIONS -.sp -.LP The following option is supported by \fB/usr/bin/ulimit\fR: .sp .ne 2 @@ -695,8 +676,6 @@ in blocks. The \fB-f\fR option is also the default case. .RE .SH OPERANDS -.sp -.LP The following operand is supported by \fB/usr/bin/ulimit\fR: .sp .ne 2 @@ -709,7 +688,6 @@ The number of 512-byte blocks to use as the new file size limit. .SH EXAMPLES .SS "/usr/bin/ulimit" -.LP \fBExample 1 \fRLimiting the Stack Size .sp .LP @@ -732,7 +710,6 @@ memory(kbytes) unlimited .sp .SS "sh/ksh" -.LP \fBExample 2 \fRLimiting the Number of File Descriptors .sp .LP @@ -755,7 +732,6 @@ vmemory(kbytes) unlimited .sp .SS "csh" -.LP \fBExample 3 \fRLimiting the Core Dump File Size .sp .LP @@ -800,14 +776,10 @@ memorysize unlimited .sp .SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES -.sp -.LP See \fBenviron\fR(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of \fBulimit\fR: \fBLANG\fR, \fBLC_ALL\fR, \fBLC_CTYPE\fR, \fBLC_MESSAGES\fR, and \fBNLSPATH\fR. .SH EXIT STATUS -.sp -.LP The following exit values are returned by \fBulimit\fR: .sp .ne 2 @@ -828,13 +800,8 @@ A request for a higher limit was rejected or an error occurred. .RE .SH ATTRIBUTES -.sp -.LP See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: .SS "/usr/bin/ulimit, csh, ksh, sh" -.sp - -.sp .TS box; c | c @@ -847,9 +814,6 @@ Standard See \fBstandards\fR(5). .TE .SS "ksh93" -.sp - -.sp .TS box; c | c @@ -860,8 +824,6 @@ Interface Stability Uncommitted .TE .SH SEE ALSO -.sp -.LP \fBbc\fR(1), \fBcsh\fR(1), \fBksh\fR(1), \fBksh93\fR(1), \fBsh\fR(1), \fBdf\fR(1M), \fBsu\fR(1M), \fBswap\fR(1M), \fBsysdef\fR(1M), \fBgetrlimit\fR(2), \fBattributes\fR(5), \fBenviron\fR(5), \fBstandards\fR(5) |