From df312a964f94ebdc94c281cf7194acb85e793c93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 15:02:53 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] sched.7: Minor wording fix Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man7/sched.7 | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man7/sched.7 b/man7/sched.7 index 70aae11fb..f74ad1fe7 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.