post-installation questions

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 9 Oct 2001 09:52:22 +1000, David K Trudgett said:

> I believe the system call under Linux to allocated non-swappable
> ("locked") memory can only be executed by a user with root privileges.
> This is probably true on most other Unixes, too, because of the scope
> for DoS attacks.

IIRC, *BSD does not require root privs.  I consider this requirement
of Linux an unfortunate choice but the maintainers did not liked a
patch to keep locked pages in an ulimit.

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