From: Tom <tom@lemuria.org>
To: james@spunkysoftware.com
Cc: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov
Subject: Re: No RAM swapout to disk for "sandbox" run programs
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:25:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010828092532.A10338@lemuria.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005201c12f50$c8891240$b9fe3c3f@spunky>; from james@spunkysoftware.com on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 09:34:10AM +1000
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 09:34:10AM +1000, james@spunkysoftware.com wrote:
> 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 strikes me as redundant because such a mechanism already exists.
> programs, since PGP on WinNT at least was already doing it. I'm not sure how
> GnuPG handles this at the moment.
GPG will use existing system calls to achieve exactly this effect. I
don't know the details by heart, but I did once. grab the gpg source
and take a look around.
> Also, I am wondering where I can get software that will allow me to look at
> arbitrary memory ranges, the purpose being to look at "deleted" files on
> Windows and Linux. Anybody know of any such software? Is there a kernel
> module that allows this?
/proc/mem is your friend. :)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-28 7:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-27 23:34 No RAM swapout to disk for "sandbox" run programs james
2001-08-28 7:25 ` Tom [this message]
2001-08-28 11:40 ` Stephen Smalley
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