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
(cherry picked from commit 01e0afa994c2e840f85e2de103e72a2c0ddf1b1f)

Co-authored-by: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_resource.py b/Lib/test/test_resource.py
index cc9c57024dee8e2ac98de38d454437ad645afe47..b405f0169d6ed6d905b72162f3ad3127b0a95b5d 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/test/test_resource.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_resource.py
@@ -148,9 +148,6 @@ 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)