[PATCH] urxvtd and mlock

[Russell Harmon]

according to the red hat people:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=405781
it's been fixed since glibc 2.7

I could add an ifdef to make sure it's a glibc >= 2.7

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 00:19, Marc Lehmann <schmorp at schmorp.de> wrote:

> 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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