sched.7: Minor wording fix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2016-11-27 15:02:53 +01:00
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@ -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.