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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eal: tighten permissions on shared memory
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Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 19:51:26 +0200
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03/04/2019 18:02, Bruce Richardson:
> Adding stable@dpdk.org since this is suitable for backporting
> 
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 05:00:34PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > When creating files on disk, e.g. for EAL configuration or shared memory
> > locks, etc., there is no need to grant any permissions on those files to
> > other users. All directories are already created with 0700 permissions, so
> > we should create all files with 0600 permissions.
> > 
> CC: stable@dpdk.org
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>

It means the primary and secondary processes must have the same owner.
Is it worth to document it?
I feel the mask could be an EAL option.

Anyway the directories have already a fixed tight mask, so
Applied, thanks