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diff --git a/man7/unix.7 b/man7/unix.7 index f22e9c0eda..b4b60308a0 100644 --- a/man7/unix.7 +++ b/man7/unix.7 @@ -452,6 +452,14 @@ then the ancillary data is truncated (or discarded) and the excess file descriptors are automatically closed in the receiving process. .IP +If the number of file descriptors received in the ancillary data would +cause the process to exceed its +.B RLIMIT_NOFILE +resource limit (see +.BR getrlimit (2)), +the excess file descriptors are automatically closed +in the receiving process. +.IP The kernel constant .BR SCM_MAX_FD defines a limit on the number of file descriptors in the array. |