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William H. Geiger III (whgiii@invweb.net)
Wed, 17 Jun 1998 14:38:21 -0500
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In <19980617220621.A526@caffeine.ix.net.nz>, on 06/17/98
at 05:06 AM, Chris Wedgwood <chris@cybernet.co.nz> said:
>If you want unpagable memory under Windows, your going to have to do
>funny things with a VxD or some such which can presumably allocate truly
>locked memory (although I've never tried this).
This is what I am playing with on the OS/2 systems.
>Better still, use a real OS that supports mlock.
Well I wouldn't be all that happy about mlock(). In 99.99% of applications
if data is swapped to disk it doesn't matter. I would hate to think of a
system where all the apps were locking memory and preventing the OS from
doing it's memory management functions.
IMHO if the swapfile is a serious security risk then one should disable it
or put it on an encrypted disk.
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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:18:37 ADT