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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:16:23 +0100 (BST)
From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Weber, Frank wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to arrange that a Linux application 
> (or one of its threads) has the ability to
> 
> 	"... lock (a certain) stack and data segment ... 
> 	into memory so that it can't be swapped out"?

man 2 mlock
man 2 mlockall

Hugh

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