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Subject: Re: memory pages nulling when releasing
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"Nick Borisov" <neiro21@gmail.com> writes:
> Could you tell me if FreeBSD supports memory page nulling when
> releasing it to prevent unauthorized access to data left in the page
> after it's allocated again.

Processes always get zeroed pages from the kernel.  This is the case
for all Unices, and has been for decades.

DES
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