Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Dec 1998 20:49:11 +0100 | From | Lars Fenneberg <> | Subject | Re: Unswappable memory needed is user space |
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Quoting christophe.leroy5@capway.com (christophe.leroy5@capway.com):
> 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 ?
See man mlock(2), munlock(2), mlockall(2), and munlockall(2).
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