Why does setuid return EAGAIN error code when changing specific uid ?

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Issue

  • After set soft and hard limit as 131072 for a specific user, at the time of update suid for a program ,setuid is returning EAGAIN error code "Resource temporarily unavailable".

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3

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