mlock(2) man page errata

Ryan Stone rysto32 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 30 01:13:56 UTC 2012


On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Dieter BSD <dieterbsd at engineer.com> wrote:
> mlock(2) says:
>
>> A single process can mlock() the minimum of a system-wide
>> ``wired pages'' limit and the per-process RLIMIT_MEMLOCK
>> resource limit.
>
> Shouldn't this say maximum rather than minimum?

I don't think so.  The minimum of the two would be the limit that you
will hit first, and presumably is the point at which you cannot mlock
any more pages.


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