Re: A variant of mlockall()

From: Igmar Palsenberg (maillist@chello.nl)
Date: Fri May 19 2000 - 17:30:30 EST


On Fri, 19 May 2000, Lorenzo Allegrucci wrote:

>
> Is there a simple and natural way to lock memory of a process
> from another process?
> I mean, POSIX1.b standard mlockall() does not provide a pid selection.
> You can only use it from inside the process you want to lock memory.
> Wouldn't be useful a mlockall(int flags, int pid) ?

It's a security risk, and I don't see how it is usefull.

> Thanks.

                Igmar

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