Re: Unswappable memory needed is user space

Lars Fenneberg (lf@elemental.net)
Tue, 8 Dec 1998 20:49:11 +0100


Quoting christophe.leroy5@capway.com (christophe.leroy5@capway.com):

> My problem is that if the crypting process is swapped out during
> crypting, one could be able to recover parts of uncrypted file
> in swap partition.
>
> Is there a way to malloc a non swappable part of memory ?

See man mlock(2), munlock(2), mlockall(2), and munlockall(2).

Lars.

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