From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 21:53:09 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: bpo-31132: Remove prlimit permission test. (GH-9280)
X-Git-Tag: v3.8.0a1~1006
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=01e0afa994c2e840f85e2de103e72a2c0ddf1b1f;p=python

bpo-31132: Remove prlimit permission test. (GH-9280)



This test is doesn't work when the test process is privledged, which is hard to detect.





https://bugs.python.org/issue34668
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_resource.py b/Lib/test/test_resource.py
index 4b852789be..b07eb73b2a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_resource.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_resource.py
@@ -147,9 +147,6 @@ class ResourceTest(unittest.TestCase):
     @support.requires_linux_version(2, 6, 36)
     def test_prlimit(self):
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, resource.prlimit)
-        if os.geteuid() != 0:
-            self.assertRaises(PermissionError, resource.prlimit,
-                              1, resource.RLIMIT_AS)
         self.assertRaises(ProcessLookupError, resource.prlimit,
                           -1, resource.RLIMIT_AS)
         limit = resource.getrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_AS)