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-rw-r--r--util/secmem.c11
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diff --git a/util/ChangeLog b/util/ChangeLog
index b39ca597d..ed18fe881 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.
+
2003-10-12 David Shaw <[email protected]>
* srv.c: OSX 10.2.8/Darwin 6.8 seems to have some #include
diff --git a/util/secmem.c b/util/secmem.c
index 7dfa668c2..2d260a382 100644
--- a/util/secmem.c
+++ b/util/secmem.c
@@ -132,9 +132,20 @@ 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;