Re: PATCH: Raw device IO for 2.1.131

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 13 Dec 1998 23:27:03 +0000 (GMT)

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> Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > His torvaldsness rejected a patch that made mlock callable from inside
> > drivers to do this sort of stuff. So thats not a possibility.
>
> You can't get userspace to initiate the mlock for you?

Only if root and suppose the user forgets. Blam, CNN all over your hard disk

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