[Tails-dev] memlockd stopped too soon (was: Improvement of t…

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Autore: Ague Mill
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Vecchi argomenti: Re: [Tails-dev] Improvement of the shutdown sequence
Oggetto: [Tails-dev] memlockd stopped too soon (was: Improvement of the shutdown sequence)
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:02:27AM +0200, intrigeri wrote:
> Ague Mill wrote (20 May 2012 17:55:03 GMT) :
> >  * memlockd
> >    Stop memlockd. Memwipe files will not kept in memory after that.
> >    Better let sendsigs kill it, or even, add its PID to
> >    /var/run/sendsigs.omit. **Remove**

>
> Something has to be done in this area to fix what looks like a serious
> bug, independently of the optimization of the shutdown sequence speed.
> The sendsigs.omit way looks right: we really don't want these files
> unmapped from memory until tails-kexec has had a chance to do its
> work. Are you taking care of that one?


Please have a look at the `bugfix/dont_stop_memlockd` branch. It is a
candidate for 0.12.

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Ague