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

benjaminp · miss-islington · commit 01e0afa994c2 · 2018-09-13T14:53:09.000-07:00
This test is doesn't work when the test process is privledged, which is hard to detect. https://bugs.python.org/issue34668
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_resource.py b/Lib/test/test_resource.py
@@ -147,9 +147,6 @@ def test_freebsd_contants(self):
     @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)
