[PATCH] urxvtd and mlock

Marc Lehmann schmorp at schmorp.de
Thu Jan 22 06:19:03 CET 2009


On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 01:44:00PM -0500, Russell Harmon <russ at eatnumber1.com> wrote:
> I wrote a patch that adds a --lock option to urxvtd to call mlockall on
> itself. This prevents urxvtd from ever being swapped. Patch follows:

Unfortunately, mlockall causes memory corruption with current versions of
glibc, and since glibc is about the main target, this is not a good diea at
the moment.

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