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To: Mike Pritchard <mpp@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: possible madvise MADV_FREE improvement 
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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 10:05:17 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
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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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