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From: Gerrit Huizenga <gh@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] mlock-as-nonroot revisted 
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On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 21:22:45 EDT, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Gerrit Huizenga wrote:
> 
> > DB2, JVM also use hugetlbfs, other uses have been tried with
> > some success.
> 
> OK.  Do any of those do the "root chowns an unnamed
> hugetlbfs file" scenario ? ;)

Badari will probably know the access method for DB2 better than
I do.  I know they go quite out of their way to avoid having
root permissions at any point in time.  How they accomplish this
in the current source base, I don't know.  They were using
capabilities for things like this for a while.

gerrit