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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] remove hugetlb syscalls
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On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 04:11:34PM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> Oracle does not run as root, so they can't even use the syscalls 
> directly.  At least with hugetlbfs we can chmod the filesystem to be 
> owned by the oracle user.

Okay, the advantage with respect to permissions is clear; now there is
a correction to the permissions checking I should do, as CAP_IPC_LOCK
is currently checked in ->f_ops->mmap(), but the permissions are
enforcible by means of ordinary vfs permissions, and so it's redundant.


Bill
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