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[Grant Grundler]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 11:56:23AM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote:
> man mlock:
> 
> ERRORS
> 
>        EPERM  The  calling  process does not have appropriate
>               privileges. Only root processes are allowed to lock pages.


mine says:
       EPERM  The  calling  process  has insufficient privilege to call mlock.
		     Under Linux the CAP_IPC_LOCK capability is required.

Assuming roland tried it, I'll guess that all processes are
given CAP_IPC_LOCK by default.

Further, ulimit -a output is enlightening:
grundler at gsyprf11:~$ ulimit -a
core file size        (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size         (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size             (blocks, -f) unlimited
max locked memory     (kbytes, -l) unlimited
max memory size       (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                    (-n) 1024
pipe size          (512 bytes, -p) 8
stack size            (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time             (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes            (-u) unlimited
virtual memory        (kbytes, -v) unlimited


grant