Once upon a time, Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> said: > On 11/02/2011 07:04 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > > You're sure about that? What evidence do you offer? Can you point to > > auto-scrub code paths in all the library APIs for freeing memory? > > Unless the next program allocates RAM and reads from it without first > writing to it, what difference does it make? And, in the unlikely event > that some program does this, there's no way of knowing a priori what was > there before. That would be a security problem, since you could have information leak from one process to another. However, Unix-like systems don't work that way. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
