GnuPG + FreeBSD 5.3 = intermitent memory warning

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Wed Dec 15 18:25:31 CET 2004


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On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 01:28:16AM -0500, Atom 'Smasher' wrote:
> i'm curious if OS-X has the same bug... has anyone checked to see if the 
> error can be duplicated under similar conditions?

It depends on the OSX VM.  However, it's important to note that this
is not a bug in FreeBSD (or GnuPG).  POSIX mlock() is documented to
return EAGAIN.  There isn't much the calling program can do after that
point except call mlock() again or give up.

David
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