Bug 253952 - setrlimit man page is incorrect, leads user to believe that rss can be set
Summary: setrlimit man page is incorrect, leads user to believe that rss can be set
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: man-pages
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Ivana Varekova
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-08-23 05:39 UTC by Wade Mealing
Modified: 2018-10-19 19:47 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: RHBA-2008-0111
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-02-13 21:20:10 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Patch to fix man page (596 bytes, patch)
2007-08-23 05:40 UTC, Wade Mealing
no flags Details | Diff


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2008:0111 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE man-pages bug fix update 2008-07-23 21:57:10 UTC

Description Wade Mealing 2007-08-23 05:39:54 UTC
Description of problem:

 man(2) pages of getrlimit()/setrlimit() says that the kernel supports
RLIMIT_RSS. But the RHEL5 kernel does not support setting/limiting RSS memory


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


man-pages-1.67-14.el4.src.rpm

How reproducible:

Every time:

This is a follow on bug see BZ: 220657

Comment 1 Wade Mealing 2007-08-23 05:40:42 UTC
Created attachment 166906 [details]
Patch to fix man page

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2008-02-13 21:20:10 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0111.html



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