Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:07:18 -0500 From: Bryan Drewery <bryan@shatow.net> To: Andrey Zonov <zont@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [patch] unprivileged mlock(2) Message-ID: <503D08D6.1040004@shatow.net> In-Reply-To: <503CF3B1.3050604@FreeBSD.org> References: <503CF3B1.3050604@FreeBSD.org>
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On 8/28/2012 11:37 AM, Andrey Zonov wrote: > Hi, > > We've got RLIMIT_MEMLOCK for years, but this limit is useless, because > only root may call mlock(2), and root may raise any limits. > > I suggest patch that allows to call mlock(2) for unprivileged users. > Are there any objections to got it in tree? > FYI, see previous recent thread on this here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2012-May/012552.html and http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2012-June/012606.html Bryan
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