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| -rw-r--r-- | util/ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | util/secmem.c | 11 |
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diff --git a/util/ChangeLog b/util/ChangeLog index d8d586d9b..2dad265ba 100644 --- a/util/ChangeLog +++ b/util/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2003-10-23 Werner Koch <[email protected]> + + * secmem.c (lock_pool) [_AIX]: Don't use plock. + 2003-07-30 Werner Koch <[email protected]> * ttyio.c: Typo fixes. diff --git a/util/secmem.c b/util/secmem.c index 5ebc7db56..e1ec6c93c 100644 --- a/util/secmem.c +++ b/util/secmem.c @@ -130,9 +130,20 @@ lock_pool( void *p, size_t n ) /* ick. but at least we get secured memory. about to lock entire data segment. */ #ifdef HAVE_PLOCK +# ifdef _AIX + /* The configure for AIX returns broken mlock but the plock has + the strange requirement to somehow set the stack limit first. + The problem might turn out in indeterministic program behaviour + and hanging processes which can somehow be solved when enough + processes are clogging up the memory. To get this problem out + of the way we simply don't try to lock the memory at all. + */ + err = EPERM; +# else /*!_AIX*/ err = plock( DATLOCK ); if( err && errno ) err = errno; +# endif /*!_AIX*/ #else /*!HAVE_PLOCK*/ if( uid ) { errno = EPERM; |