Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Can anyone tell me about the viability of a guarantee_memory() syscall?
> 
> [I'm thinking: it would either kill the process, or allocate all virtual
> memory needed for its shared libraries, buffers, allocated memory, etc.
> Furthermore, it would render this process immune to the OOM killer,
> unless it allocated further memory.]

Except for the OOM killer semantics mlockall already exists.

Eric

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