Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Unswappable memory needed is user space | Date | Tue, 8 Dec 1998 10:58:45 -0600 (EST) | From | kwrohrer@ce ... |
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And lo, christophe.leroy5@capway.com saith unto me: > > My problem is that if the crypting process is swapped out during > crypting, one could be able to recover parts of uncrypted file > in swap partition. > > Is there a way to malloc a non swappable part of memory ? > Use mlock or mlockall. They have man pages.
Keith
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