Function

getrlimit invokes the getrlimit callable service to get the maximum and current resource limits for the calling process.

Parameters

resource

The resource whose limit is being requested. Resources that have limits with values greater than RLIM_INFINITY will return values of RLIM_INFINITY.

You can use the predefined variables beginning with RLIMIT_ or their equivalent numeric values to access the limits. (See REXX predefined variables for the numeric values.)

Variable	Description
RLIMIT_AS	Maximum address space size for a process
RLIMIT_CORE	Maximum size (in bytes) of a core dump created by a process
RLIMIT_CPU	Maximum amount of CPU time (in seconds) used by a process
RLIMIT_FSIZE	Maximum files size (in bytes) created by a process
RLIMIT_NOFILE	Maximum number of open file descriptors for a process

stem

The name of the stem variable used to return the limit. stem.1 is the first word and stem.2 is the second word. The first word contains the current limit; the second word contains the maximum limit. The values for each word are dependent on the resource specified.