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A netlink-based user-space crypto API

Posted Oct 24, 2010 23:31 UTC (Sun) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)
In reply to: A netlink-based user-space crypto API by alonz
Parent article: A netlink-based user-space crypto API

One man's hack is another man's elegant design :-)

aio, by its very nature, requires the kernel to hold on to user-space pointers for longer than a single system call. This is OK because 'aio_cancel' exists to reclaim the pointer if needed.

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