Re: shmget with SHM_HUGETLB flag: Operation not permitted

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:36:03PM +0100, Jochen Roemling wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm using stock kernel 2.6.2. I have HUGETLB support compiled in.
> CONFIG_HUGETLBFS=y
> CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE=y
> When issuing this command in a C pgm
> shmid =shmget(IPC_PRIVATE, SOMESIZE, SHM_HUGETLB|IPC_CREAT|SHM_R|SHM_W)
> I get "Operation not Permitted" when running it as a normal user. It
> works for root. Without the SHM_HUGETLB flag it works fine for all users.
> How can I grant the permission to use HUGETLB to ordinary users?

(a) use the fs which uses fs permissions to grant users permission to
	fiddle with hugetlb
(b) man 2 capset
(c) proxy daemon for shmget()


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