Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268126AbUI2Ay4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2004 20:54:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268131AbUI2Awi (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2004 20:52:38 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:12937 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268126AbUI2Avw (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2004 20:51:52 -0400 Subject: Re: mlock(1) From: Alan Cox To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Stefan Seyfried , Bernd Eckenfels , Chris Wright , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Nigel Cunningham In-Reply-To: <20040927141652.GF28865@dualathlon.random> References: <1096071873.3591.54.camel@desktop.cunninghams> <20040925011800.GB3309@dualathlon.random> <4157B04B.2000306@suse.de> <20040927141652.GF28865@dualathlon.random> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1096291898.9911.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:31:39 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 825 Lines: 18 On Llu, 2004-09-27 at 15:16, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > because I never use suspend/resume on my desktop, I never shutdown my > desktop. I don't see why should I spend time typing a password when > there's no need to. Every single guy out there will complain at linux > hanging during boot asking for password before reaching kdm. So attempt a decrypt with a null password before asking. > > And a resume is - in the beginning - a boot, so just ask early enough > > (maybe the bootloader could do this?) We are very limited as to which bits the bootloader can do unfortunately. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/