From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:31:54 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: [patch] remove hugetlb syscalls Message-ID: <20021114213154.GN23425@holomorphy.com> References: <20021113184555.B10889@redhat.com> <20021114203035.GF22031@holomorphy.com> <20021114154809.D20258@redhat.com> <20021114210220.GM23425@holomorphy.com> <20021114161134.E20258@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021114161134.E20258@redhat.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Benjamin LaHaise Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/