Hello Seonghun, 2011/8/31 Seonghun Lim <wariua@xxxxxxxxx>: > man-pages version: latest git repository > why: EPERM error code is not only set by munlock(), but also by other calls. > > > diff --git a/man2/mlock.2 b/man2/mlock.2 > --- a/man2/mlock.2 > +++ b/man2/mlock.2 > @@ -151,8 +151,7 @@ soft resource limit was 0. > .TP > .B EPERM > (Linux 2.6.8 and earlier) > -The calling process has insufficient privilege to call > -.BR munlockall (). > +The calling process has insufficient privilege. > Under Linux the > .B CAP_IPC_LOCK > capability is required. Thanks for the report. Instead, I applied a simplifying patch for 3.33. Thanks, Michael diff --git a/man2/mlock.2 b/man2/mlock.2 index 45f5f1d..535a7db 100644 --- a/man2/mlock.2 +++ b/man2/mlock.2 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, .\" Boston, MA 02111, USA. .\" -.TH MLOCK 2 2010-10-30 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH MLOCK 2 2011-09-10 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME mlock, munlock, mlockall, munlockall \- lock and unlock memory .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -143,19 +143,9 @@ half of RAM. .\" pages, which of course is not true. (MTK, Nov 04, kernel 2.4.28) .TP .B EPERM -(Linux 2.6.9 and later) the caller was not privileged +The caller is not privileged, but needs privilege .RB ( CAP_IPC_LOCK ) -and its -.B RLIMIT_MEMLOCK -soft resource limit was 0. -.TP -.B EPERM -(Linux 2.6.8 and earlier) -The calling process has insufficient privilege to call -.BR munlockall (). -Under Linux the -.B CAP_IPC_LOCK -capability is required. +to perform the requested operation. .\"SVr4 documents an additional EAGAIN error code. .LP For -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
