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Date:      Sun, 26 Jan 1997 10:05:17 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
To:        Mike Pritchard <mpp@freebsd.org>
Cc:        dyson@freebsd.org, dtc@scrooge.ee.swin.oz.au, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: possible madvise MADV_FREE improvement 
Message-ID:  <6897.854269517@critter.dk.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 25 Jan 1997 18:31:41 PST." <199701260231.SAA10393@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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In message <199701260231.SAA10393@freefall.freebsd.org>, Mike Pritchard writes:

>Can someone clarify  what PR# 1851 has to say?  Is it
>possible for "random" data to be returned in some cases?  Here
>is the next of the PR:

No.

You will either get the same stuff you left there or zeros.

Getting "random" data would mean it came from somewhere else, which 
would be a potential security hole.

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