Re: 2.6.6-mm1

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 04:11:46PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> eh? magic groups are nasty...  and why is this needed?  can't
> oracle/whatever just run with a wrapper to give the capabilities out
> as required until a better solution is available

Well, easiest thing would be to use mmap on hugetlbfs in oracle, then
you just need to chown /dev/hugetlb/ group hugetlb and set +x for the
group - same effect as the kernel hack but keeping policy where it
belongs.

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