id summary reporter owner description type status milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 5548 Boost interprocess shared memory mutex requires root permissions on Linux habdank@… Ion Gaztañaga "Programs that uses shared memory, especially shared memory mutex on Linux are working only when super-user permissions are granted. POSIX does not require that, so that is a bug in BOOST IPC implementation to require SU permissions. Workaround is to create a group that will have a high access rights to /dev/shm and then add all users that may use application to that group, but that is not solving all problems." Bugs closed To Be Determined interprocess Boost 1.45.0 Problem worksforme