diff -up man-pages-3.32/man5/proc.5.orig man-pages-3.32/man5/proc.5
--- man-pages-3.32/man5/proc.5.orig	2010-12-03 08:02:02.000000000 +0100
+++ man-pages-3.32/man5/proc.5	2011-05-27 10:07:56.000000000 +0200
@@ -1795,6 +1795,10 @@ For further details, see
 .I /proc/sys/fs/file-max
 This file defines
 a system-wide limit on the number of open files for all processes.
+This limit is not applied when a root user (or
+any user with
+.B CAP_SYS_ADMIN
+privileges) is trying to open a file.
 (See also
 .BR setrlimit (2),
 which can be used by a process to set the per-process limit,