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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sys.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index 2969304c29fe..c578b75d7923 100644 --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -1576,10 +1576,9 @@ int do_prlimit(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned int resource, task_unlock(tsk->group_leader); /* - * RLIMIT_CPU handling. Note that the kernel fails to return an error - * code if it rejected the user's attempt to set RLIMIT_CPU. This is a - * very long-standing error, and fixing it now risks breakage of - * applications, so we live with it + * RLIMIT_CPU handling. Arm the posix CPU timer if the limit is not + * infite. In case of RLIM_INFINITY the posix CPU timer code + * ignores the rlimit. */ if (!retval && new_rlim && resource == RLIMIT_CPU && new_rlim->rlim_cur != RLIM_INFINITY && |