Re: [patch] mlock-as-nonroot revisted

[Chris Wright]

* Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:38:57PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > not if you keep track of who locked in the first place and give the credit
> > back to *that* user (struct).
> 
> I wasn't talking about chown above. I mean, where's the truncate that
> releases the user-struct-bind? 

I'm not sure what you mean.  Truncate should only update the accounting,
not break the binding, right?

> You just can't release the user-struct-bind from
> munlock/exit/whatever-task-opeartion-different-from-truncate-or-chown.

It's meant to be done at object destruction.

thanks,
-chris
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