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Urban Boquist wrote:
>

>Great work! Thanks a lot!
>
>I have one question though. I used to use TCFS for a while, and one
>really nifty feature it had was that you could "remove" the encryption
>key from the kernel without unmounting the file system. Processes that
>tried to access the disk when the key was unavailable got read/write
>errors.
>
>This was very handy on e.g. a travelling laptop, where you could use
>the /etc/apm scripts to simply remove the key automatically when
>suspending. Since you didn't need to unmount the file system you also
>didn't have to bother finding all processes inside the file system,
>kill emacs buffers visiting files inside it, etc. Once resumed you
>just re-entered the passphrase and everything was as before again.
>
>Would something like this be possible to add to cgd?

Yes, I was thinking about this but I haven't looked through the
code to see how easy it would be to actually do it. I have a
sneaking suspicion that it may be a bit of a pain, but I'll get
back to you on it in a while. (It's on the TODO list.)

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    Roland Dowdeswell                      http://www.Imrryr.ORG/~elric/

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