Re: mlock(1)

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 03:07:59AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> about it either, it'll be always different, it will be choosed randomly
> by userspace while booting the machine.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^

while the above would work fine too, I'm starting thinking it's simpler
and cleaner to make it completely transparent to userspace, we can
choose the random key within sys_swapon, userspace will only have to
tweak if to enable the crypto-swap feature or not before calling swapon
(maybe via sysctl).
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