From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262008AbUEJXYm (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2004 19:24:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261752AbUEJXRM (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2004 19:17:12 -0400 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([213.86.99.234]:32017 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263045AbUEJXOU (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2004 19:14:20 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 00:14:18 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Chris Wedgwood Cc: Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.6-mm1 Message-ID: <20040511001418.A9065@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Chris Wedgwood , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040510024506.1a9023b6.akpm@osdl.org> <20040510223755.A7773@infradead.org> <20040510150203.3257ccac.akpm@osdl.org> <20040510231146.GA5168@taniwha.stupidest.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20040510231146.GA5168@taniwha.stupidest.org>; from cw@f00f.org on Mon, May 10, 2004 at 04:11:46PM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.