Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:50:16 -0400 (EDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [patch] mlock-as-nonroot revisted |
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On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> So as described some month ago such patch is insecure and conceptually > flawed since they're using rlimits to control persistent objects that > have absolutely nothing to do with the task itself, which in turns make > the rlimit useless.
Which is why shared memory segments are accounted against the USER, instead of against the TASK.
Your criticism from a few months ago was noted and the patch got fixed. If you want to criticise the new code, please read it first, especially the changes to shmem.c ;)
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