Removed Process.kill spec checking EPERM.

There is no reliable way to guarantee that a specific PID is not killable by the user running the specs, even when not superuser. On the other hand, there is no way to make a process that is not killable because to do so would require escalating privileges.
rubinius · Nov 1, 2014 · 5cd0c42 · 5cd0c42
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diff --git a/spec/ruby/core/process/kill_spec.rb b/spec/ruby/core/process/kill_spec.rb
@@ -62,14 +62,6 @@
   end
 end
 
-as_user do
-  describe "Process.kill" do
-    it "raises an Errno::EPERM if permission is denied" do
-      lambda { Process.kill("SIGKILL", 1) }.should raise_error(Errno::EPERM)
-    end
-  end
-end
-
 describe "Process.kill" do
   before :each do
     @sp1 = ProcessSpecs::Signalizer.new