Issue #16595: prlimit() needs Linux kernel 2.6.36+

diff --git a/Doc/library/resource.rst b/Doc/library/resource.rst
index d49e13c5ad82c872127cff757e5b09d183768379..9bb5848e3a3c39c2aace3575e51a0f1618a497ee 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/resource.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/resource.rst
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ this module for those platforms.
    :exc:`PermissionError` when the user doesn't have ``CAP_SYS_RESOURCE`` for
    the process.
 
-   Availability: Linux (glibc 2.13+)
+   Availability: Linux 2.6.36 or later with glibc 2.13 or later
 
    .. versionadded:: 3.4
 

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_resource.py b/Lib/test/test_resource.py
index 239d8d5e8d8c7acb69712e68fc7373323a103b6e..218465522084012bca1eff1cf2c7f96f7283bfe0 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/test/test_resource.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_resource.py
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ class ResourceTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
 
     @unittest.skipUnless(hasattr(resource, 'prlimit'), 'no prlimit')
+    @support.requires_linux_version(2, 6, 36)
     def test_prlimit(self):
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, resource.prlimit)
         if os.geteuid() != 0: