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[Bill Strahm]

Timur Tabi wrote:

> Roland Dreier wrote:
>
>>     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).
>
>
> Since when?
>
> man mlock:
>
> ERRORS
>
>        EPERM  The  calling  process does not have appropriate
>               privileges. Only root processes are allowed to lock pages.
>
Well, you can CALL it, it just returns an expected error code.

Bill