Setting up gpg on an IRIX web server

Lars Hecking lhecking@nmrc.ucc.ie
Sat, 5 Feb 2000 02:30:07 +0000



> > FreeBSD has the identical text in the mlock(3) man page.
>
> Unfortunately, one should read the next line :
>
> [..]
> 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.
> [..]
NetBSD does not have this limitation. gpg works fine without suid.