Re: PATCH: Raw device IO for 2.1.131

yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu
Sun, 13 Dec 1998 21:35:31 -0700

On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 11:27:03PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > > His torvaldsness rejected a patch that made mlock callable from inside
> > > drivers to do this sort of stuff. So thats not a possibility.
> >
> > You can't get userspace to initiate the mlock for you?
>
> Only if root and suppose the user forgets. Blam, CNN all over your hard disk
>

send message to high speed char device TCP port: message includes
executble file name, memory size for locked down pages,

Root server forks, mmaps, mlocks, setuser id , exec

Does that work?

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