Re: shmat -- wtf owns it?

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:53:28PM -0800, john moser wrote:
> Okay I've been back and forth through ipc/shm.c and shm.h about 3 or
> 4 times. Yes, rather cursory of me to not read it 40 times.  But,
> seriously.
> Who the FUCK owns a shm segment?  I can't see a way to check the
> creator of a segment of shm in sys_shmat() in ipc/shm.c and I really
> tried too.

There are uid's and gid's associated with shm segments.

c.f. struct ipc_perm


-- wli
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