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Date:      Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:04:14 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        dnelson@emsphone.com, deraadt@theos.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/db/hash hash_buf.c
Message-ID:  <199610200704.JAA27667@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199610200201.TAA03344@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Oct 19, 96 07:01:11 pm"

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As Terry Lambert wrote:

> Well, you would hope that you could set the flag locally, where it's
> supported, and it would be globally supported.
> 
> Basically, you'd have a linker set initialization function for an
> affected library, and when the program started, it would call the
> setup functions, which would in turn obey the flag, if set.

linker set... linker set.  Well, the requirement of this application
for the `secure free' is already known at compile time.  Shouldn't it
be possible to just link another free() (kinda `overloaded') in this
case, thus eliminating any peculiarities of any flag testing?

(I've trimmed the Cc list to those who were in the list of addressees,
but are IMHO not on freebsd-hackers.  If you guys are not interested
in this technical discussion, say so, and we'll drop you from there.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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