On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 06:40:18PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On mar., 2011-11-29 at 18:31 +0100, Arno Wagner wrote: > > If you actually want to remove the LUKS mapping (i.e. "close" the > > LUKS container) when the screen safer engages and remap the LUKS > > container when the screensaver is unlocked, then this is complicated. > > It mau also not be what you want, given that unmapping the LUKS > > container with open files is eiter not possible or can result in > > arbitrary data corruption (I have not tried it). So you would > > need to do something like this on screenlocker-engage: > > > > 1. Determine all open files in the LUKS container > > 2. Terminate all applications that have these files open > > 3. Unmount the LUKS container and verify it did unmount. > > If unmount fails, go to 1. (An application could have opened > > a file in between...) Maybe you can also do a ro remount first. > > 4. Unmap the LUKS container. > > > > Now, this would need to be somehow script-driven from the > > screensaver. Whether automated application clsoe is a good idea > > depends very much on the situation and is generally _not_ a good > > idea. > > > > What about luksSuspend operation? Well, maybe. If _all_ used applications can deal with I/O calls to take forever. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
