Re: 2.6.6-mm1

[Christoph Hellwig]

> Capabilities are broken and don't work.  Nobody has a clue how to provide
> the required services with SELinux and nobody has any code and we need the
> feature *now* before vendors go shipping even more ghastly stuff.

The thing is special privilegues for a group don't fit into any of the
various privilegues schemes we have (capabilities, selinux, etc..),
it's really a horrible hack.  What happened to the patch rick promised
to make mlock an rlimit?  This is the right approach and could be easily
extended to hugetlb pages.

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