On Sat, 26 Apr 2014 11:39:02 +0200 Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Control: tag -1 - patch > > While I appreciate the feedback on how mlock works on kfreebsd > and including a patch along with discussions of technical details > is nice, I'm going to remove the patch tag. > Maye I misunderstood something but i think there's a reason the > memory is mlocked; to avoid leaking sensitive information into swap. > We can't just kill off security by patching out the check for > working mlock. Atleast not without a big fat warning dialog > where the user opts out of security first. > > As I see it if there's no way to securely do the same thing on > kfreebsd, then this package simply can't work on kfreebsd. > > On a side-note: AFAIK libgnome-keyring is deprecated (in favor of > libsecret). Efforts might be better spent on helping users port > their code away from libgnome-keyring, but since there are > quite a few reverse dependencies in the archive I doubt it > will be practically possible to achive the goal of having all > of them ported before the Jessie freeze.
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