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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-11-27 15:02:53 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-11-27 15:02:53 +0100 |
| commit | df312a964f94ebdc94c281cf7194acb85e793c93 (patch) | |
| tree | 0a523e54104b73fae6f02c81260161cb260efaca /man7/sched.7 | |
| parent | 0b1ce08517e5e8e44c7ca37f27fbc06ec1a18d65 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-df312a964f94ebdc94c281cf7194acb85e793c93.tar.gz | |
sched.7: Minor wording fix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man7/sched.7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/sched.7 | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man7/sched.7 b/man7/sched.7 index 70aae11fb4..f74ad1fe72 100644 --- a/man7/sched.7 +++ b/man7/sched.7 @@ -542,8 +542,8 @@ A nonblocking infinite loop in a thread scheduled under the .BR SCHED_RR , or .BR SCHED_DEADLINE -policy will block all threads with lower -priority forever. +policy can potentially block all other threads from accessing +the CPU forever. Prior to Linux 2.6.25, the only way of preventing a runaway real-time process from freezing the system was to run (at the console) a shell scheduled under a higher static priority than the tested application. |