Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:31:54 -0800 | | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | | Subject | Re: [patch] remove hugetlb syscalls |
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On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 04:11:34PM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > Oracle does not run as root, so they can't even use the syscalls > directly. At least with hugetlbfs we can chmod the filesystem to be > owned by the oracle user.
Okay, the advantage with respect to permissions is clear; now there is a correction to the permissions checking I should do, as CAP_IPC_LOCK is currently checked in ->f_ops->mmap(), but the permissions are enforcible by means of ordinary vfs permissions, and so it's redundant.
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