From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from jazzswing.ncsc.mil (jazzswing.ncsc.mil [144.51.68.65]) by tycho.ncsc.mil (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA22327 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 03:22:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jazzswing.ncsc.mil (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jazzswing.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id HAA04532 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 07:21:31 GMT Received: from mail.lemuria.org ([213.191.86.30]) by jazzswing.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id HAA04528 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 07:21:30 GMT Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:25:32 +0200 From: Tom To: james@spunkysoftware.com Cc: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Subject: Re: No RAM swapout to disk for "sandbox" run programs Message-ID: <20010828092532.A10338@lemuria.org> References: <005201c12f50$c8891240$b9fe3c3f@spunky> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <005201c12f50$c8891240$b9fe3c3f@spunky>; from james@spunkysoftware.com on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 09:34:10AM +1000 Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov 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. :) -- You have received this message because you are subscribed to the selinux list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.