Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:36:42 +0000 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: Users locking memory using futexes |
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Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote: > Good thing is - I just found out after reading twice - that FUTEX_FD does > not lock the page in memory, so that is one case less to worry about.
Oh yes it does - the page isn't unpinned until wakeup or close. See where it says in futex_fd():
page = NULL; out: if (page) unpin_page(page);
Rusty's got a good point about pipe() though.
Btw, maybe GnuPG can use this "feature" to lock it's crypto memory in RAM :)
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