[vox-tech] Must a 300 microsecond delay keep the CPU busy?

Ted Deppner ted at psyber.com
Tue Apr 4 19:46:57 PDT 2006


On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 05:24:08PM -0700, Micah J. Cowan wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 02:52:08PM -0700, Ted Deppner wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 02:26:11PM -0700, Micah J. Cowan wrote:
> > > Might he want to bitwise-or that with MCL_CURRENT? Otherwise, isn't
> > 
> > That sounds right.  It's been years since I used these... I had to dust
> 
> BTW, this is also used for security concerns, right? To prevent
> sensitive (eg, decrypted) data from getting to disk? I seem to remember
> gnupg spitting out warnings that it couldn't do something like this, if
> it wasn't run with privileges...

Yes, that is correct.

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