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SubjectRe: mlock(1)
* Chris Friesen (cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com) wrote:
> Chris Wright wrote:
>
> > 2. Problem is the execve(2) that the mlock(1) program would have to call.
> > This blows away the mappings which contain the locking info.
>
> Does it? The man page said it isn't inherited on fork(), but why wouldn't it
> be inherited on exec()?

The info is stored in the memory mapping info that's necessarily blown
away at execve(2) because that's where you are overlaying a new image.

thanks,
-chris
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