Re: Rationale for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK?

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 19:55 +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > hmm... curious that mlockall() succeeds with only a 32kb rlimit....
> 
> It's quite obvious with the seteuid() shuffling behind the scenes of the
> app, for the mlockall() runs with euid==0, and the later mmap() with euid!=0.

hmm how on earth was that supposed to work at all????



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