Setting up gpg on an IRIX web server

[Remi Guyomarch]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 11:21:41AM +0000, David Pick wrote:
> 
> > mstevens> The mlock(3) man page on OpenBSD suggests that regular users can lock
> > mstevens> memory, but only up to a preset quota:
> > 
> > mstevens> -cut-- 
> > mstevens> Since physical memory is a potentially scarce resource, processes are
> > mstevens> limited in how much they can lock down.  A single process can mlock
> > mstevens> the minimum of a system-wide ``wired pages'' limit and the per-process
> > mstevens> RLIMIT_MEMLOCK resource limit.
> > mstevens> -cut--
> > 
> > it would be nice for other os-s to support this so usage of setuid can
> > be avoided.  does anyone know whether there is any work being done to
> > support this?  (at least for linux?)
> 
> FreeBSD has the identical text in the mlock(3) man page.

Unfortunately, one should read the next line :

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     Since physical memory is a potentially scarce resource, processes are
     limited in how much they can lock down.  A single process can mlock() the
     minimum of a system-wide `wired pages'' limit and the per-process
     RLIMIT_MEMLOCK resource limit.

     These calls are only available to the super-user.

[...]
ERRORS
     Mlock() will fail if:

     [EPERM]       The caller is not the super-user.
[..]