GnuPG + FreeBSD 5.3 = intermitent memory warning

[David Shaw]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 03:19:45PM +0100, Janusz A. Urbanowicz wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:05:34PM -0500, David Shaw wrote:
> > In terms of what to do about this in GnuPG, I'm not sure if there
> > should be anything done.  I think the the current GnuPG behavior is
> > pretty good: try to get locked memory, and if it can't, warn the user.
> 
> I can imagione a situation when the user wants for the program to do more
> than spit out stderr warning. What about another ( :-(( ) --expert option
> along the lines of --no-secmem-fail with a specific error code if mlock()
> cannot be obtained?

I thought about something like that, but I worried it would cause
confusion if it was set on a non-setuid binary.  I'll take another
look.

David
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