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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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