Bug#628383: libgnome-keyring: FTBFS on kfreebsd-*, test suite failure in test-secmem

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Petr,

Am 07.06.2013 09:21, schrieb Petr Salinger:
> the test-secmem fails due to different restriction of FreeBSD kernel.
> 
> The FreeBSD kernel does not allow mlock()/mlockall() for ordinary user.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mlock&sektion=2
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mlockall&sektion=2
> 
> "These calls are only available to the super-user."
> 
> This behaviour fully conforms to
> 
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/mlock.html
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/mlockall.html
> 
> "Appropriate privileges are required to lock process memory ..."
> 
> Iff I do as a root in build directory:
>  cd egg/tests
>  chown root.root test-secmem
>  chmod u+s test-secmem
> 
> I can later as ordinary user do
>   cd egg/tests
>   make check
> 
> with output:
> 
> TEST: test-secmem... (pid=13110)
>   /secmem/alloc_free:                                                  OK
>   /secmem/realloc_across:                                              OK
>   /secmem/alloc_two:                                                   OK
>   /secmem/realloc:                                                     OK
>   /secmem/multialloc:                                                  OK
>   /secmem/clear:                                                       OK
>   /secmem/strclear:                                                    OK
> PASS: test-secmem
> 
> So the code seems to work correctly when appropriate privileges are
> available.

What should be used on kfreebsd then to lock process memory as ordinary
user, ie. how can this bug be fixed?

Michael


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