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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2020-11-02 13:15:37 +0100
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2020-11-02 13:15:37 +0100
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errno.3: Note another possible cause of the EMFILE error
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man3/errno.3 b/man3/errno.3
index dacdb0ab08..504c22af53 100644
--- a/man3/errno.3
+++ b/man3/errno.3
@@ -359,6 +359,8 @@ Commonly caused by exceeding the
.BR RLIMIT_NOFILE
resource limit described in
.BR getrlimit (2).
+Can also be caused by exceeding the limit specified in
+.IR /proc/sys/fs/nr_open .
.TP
.B EMLINK
Too many links (POSIX.1-2001).