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SubjectRe: [patch] mlock-as-nonroot revisted
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On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 21:22:45 EDT, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Gerrit Huizenga wrote:
>
> > DB2, JVM also use hugetlbfs, other uses have been tried with
> > some success.
>
> OK. Do any of those do the "root chowns an unnamed
> hugetlbfs file" scenario ? ;)

Badari will probably know the access method for DB2 better than
I do. I know they go quite out of their way to avoid having
root permissions at any point in time. How they accomplish this
in the current source base, I don't know. They were using
capabilities for things like this for a while.

gerrit
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