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Roland Dreier roland at topspin.com
Wed Mar 9 09:56:25 PST 2005


    Timur> I see that function ibv_lock_range() in libibverbs calls
    Timur> the mlock() system call. mlock() can only be called by a
    Timur> process that has root privileges.  Does this mean the
    Timur> user-space verbs support is only available to applications
    Timur> that run as root?

Actually this isn't true.  Any process can call mlock() (try it and see).

 - R.



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