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Re: libgcrypt brain dead?



On Mon, Mar  8, 2010 at 16:27:37 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Can anyone confirm the comment in the bug log that setuid shouldn't even
> be required to do what libgcrypt is doing here, namely locking memory so
> that it's not swapped to disk?
> 
linux-2.6/include/linux/resource.h:#define MLOCK_LIMIT    ((PAGE_SIZE > 64*1024) ? PAGE_SIZE : 64*1024)

so by default you can mlock up to 64k.

Cheers,
Julien

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