Re: disable-cap-mlock

From: Andrea Arcangeli
Date: Thu Apr 01 2004 - 21:42:52 EST


On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 06:30:26PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I guess so.

sounds very good then, I'll send a notice.

> Well you have a local short-term solution...

yep...

> One thing I was wondering was whether /proc/sys/vm/disable_cap_mlock should
> hold a GID rather than a boolean. So you do
>
> echo groupof oracle > /proc/sys/vm/disable_cap_mlock

that's probably optimal OTOH that would complicate the code, I prefer an
obviously safe !disable_cap_mlock, if we want to go complicated we can
probably wait the userspace solution ;)
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