Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:

> On 2024/06/20 20:50, Fabien Romano wrote:
> >                                                   while there, I also encounter
> > a mlock(2) in signal-desktop/better-sqlite/sqlcipher. From my understanding this
> > syscall is about wiring page and not about concurrencies.
> 
> they'll be trying to prevent secrets being written to swap (for those
> OS which don't have encrypted swap).


Which is completely dumb, because that is NOT a promise made by the
system call.

I really dislike msync(), because un-restricted use allow a userland
process to overcomit shared resources.  Accidentally and intentionally,
it will cause resource shortage in other running programs.