"Pinned" allocate

[Steve Kargl]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 11:12:06AM +0100, Thomas Koenig wrote:
> Hello Al,
> 
> > Is there a way to do a "pinned" (i.e. page-locked in physical memory) allocate in gfortran?
> > If not, I suggest an extension to the ALLOCATE statement with an option PINNED='YES' or 'NO'.
> 
> Gfortran currently does not have such a functionality.  If you have a
> system which supports this, you can do it yourself using mlock and
> the C interoperability feature.  Example (untested):
> 

According to the FreeBSD man page, mlock and munlock are
available only to the superuser.  I suspect that this 
restriction applies to other operating systems.

-- 
Steve