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@@ -8,11 +8,12 @@ The pam_limits PAM module sets limits on the system resources that can be
obtained in a user-session. Users of uid=0 are affected by this limits, too.
By default limits are taken from the /etc/security/limits.conf config file.
-Then individual files from the /etc/security/limits.d/ directory are read. The
-files are parsed one after another in the order of "C" locale. The effect of
-the individual files is the same as if all the files were concatenated together
-in the order of parsing. If a config file is explicitely specified with a
-module option then the files in the above directory are not parsed.
+Then individual *.conf files from the /etc/security/limits.d/ directory are
+read. The files are parsed one after another in the order of "C" locale. The
+effect of the individual files is the same as if all the files were
+concatenated together in the order of parsing. If a config file is explicitly
+specified with a module option then the files in the above directory are not
+parsed.
The module must not be called by a multithreaded application.