Re: No RAM swapout to disk for "sandbox" run programs

On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 james@spunkysoftware.com wrote:

> PGP uses, or did use, a (sloppy?) memory driver which prevented process
> address space active in RAM from being swapped out to disk.
>
> I have written Linus Torvalds talking about a range of PIDs, or a new field
> in the task_struct, which would indicate to the mm in the kernel that
> swapping this process' address space out to disk was forbidden.

This seems a bit off-topic for this mailing list. Anyway, why can't you use the mlock system call?

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Stephen D. Smalley, NAI Labs
ssmalley@nai.com





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