[ On Sat, December 19, 1998 at 07:12:54 (+0200), Lucio de Re wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: userid partitioned swap spaces. 
>
> You raise an interesting point, here: what happens if the root process 
> then setuid()s to a less privileged user?

Then at that point root has given up privileges and that process can no
longer make use of any *remaining* VM space.  If SIGDANGER and/or
SIGOOVM are busy doing their thing then this process also becomes
subject to being elected as a resource-recovery "volunteer".

I.e. everything operates as it normally would.  Nothing special should
be done.

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