SETRLIMIT(3POSIX)

💖 SETRLIMIT — ok bestie, let's talk resource limits 💖

So this page? It's part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual, and I need you to clock that before we do literally anything else. ✨

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

Heads up, bestie — read this before you @ me.

This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (so like, go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the deets on Linux behavior), or honestly the interface may not be implemented on Linux at all. Not every glow-up is portable, iykyk. 😭

✨ NAME ✨

setrlimit — control maximum resource consumption 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <sys/resource.h>

int setrlimit(int resource, const struct rlimit *rlp);

That's the whole vibe. Two args, one header, no cap. 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so this is the part where I'm supposed to explain everything… and instead I'm gonna point you at getrlimit(). Refer to getrlimit(). That's it, that's the description, the man page said "go ask my sibling." 💅

💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.

And listen — in the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. Like, that's the main character, this page is just the group chat recap. 📣

The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html . 🐛

And that's a wrap, my love 💖 — brought to you by IEEE and The Open Group, 2017, signing off from the SETRLIMIT(3POSIX) era. Go set some limits (responsibly). Periodt. 🌈👑