John Martin wrote: > David Powell wrote: >> See http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/rm/rctls/sysv/ for more >> information on this change. > > Interesting. So for Solaris, the X server process starts life as euid root > but after the user logs into the desktop, euid is switched to the user. > If I login as a non-root, which privilege category will the Xorg process > get for shm?
I believe the X server runs in the user's project, so any allocations it performs will be against that project's quota. That said, it shouldn't matter since AFAIK all shared memory allocations are performed by the client, not the server. Dave
