Messages in this thread | | | From | Gerrit Huizenga <> | Subject | Re: [patch] mlock-as-nonroot revisted | Date | Tue, 03 Aug 2004 18:37:02 -0700 |
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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.
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