On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
     A privileged user can prevent or allow swapping of a shared memory
     segment with the following cmds:
        SHM_LOCK    prevents swapping of a shared memory segment. The user
                    must fault in any pages that are required to be present
                    after ...

I've done a grep through the code, to see if its something that we do use, and
it doesn't seem to come back with anything ...

No, we don't.  "privileged user" means root, so it's not possible for us
to set that.

Ya, that's what I was figuring, but figured someone with more Linux knowledge might know a 'loophole' we could exploit :)

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