Posted by Colin McKinnon on 09/07/06 22:22

Jose da Silva wrote:

> Hi there people,
>
> I'm having a problem, i've designed an php extension, that uses shared
> memory iteraction.
>
> Altought, Php is initializing the extension as root, leaving the shared
> memory with wrong permissions, as is created as root process.
>
> Is there any way to initialize extensions, not as root?
>
probably not if you want to listen on reserved ports.

Maybe I'm being dim here, but why not set the permissions with the mode
parameter when you create the shm (I assume you're using shm_open) ?

C.

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