Re: Rationale for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK?

[Bodo Eggert]

Joerg Schilling <schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I could add this piece of code to the euid == 0 part of cdrecord:
> 
> LOCAL void
> raise_memlock()
> { 
> #ifdef  RLIMIT_MEMLOCK
>         struct rlimit rlim;
>  
>         rlim.rlim_cur = rlim.rlim_max = RLIM_INFINITY;

I think you should rather use the size you're going to mlock, or at least
the upper bound.
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verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren.
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