Re: patch to include EasyPG to Emacs

[Andreas Schwab]

Jan Djärv <address@hidden> writes:

> Richard Stallman skrev:
>>     There is still the problem, that one can't prevent Emacs from swapping
>>     out the content of such an buffer -- but that's a more generic problem
>>     (which was discussed briefly in an earlier thread IIRC).
>>
>> Isn't there a way to tell the system not to swap out certain pages?
>>
>>
>
> There is mlock(2).

The amount of memory that can be locked (by unprivileged processes) is
quite limited (128kb typically).

Andreas.

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