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 :)
-- Jamie
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