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Date:      Fri, 21 May 1999 19:15:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.net>
To:        Avalon Books <avalon@advicom.net>
Cc:        Joel Maslak <jmaslak@wind-river.com>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Secure Deletion
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990521191048.42784C-100000@narcissus.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905201452520.2841-100000@vespucci.advicom.net>

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On Thu, 20 May 1999, Avalon Books wrote:

>    Actually, I've done this already. At the moment, its a simple
> stand-alone program (I originally wrote during my DOS days, years ago),
> but I've been toying with the idea of adding the method in as an option
> for 'rm'. No need to tie up the kernel with this sort of thing.

Won't your program have to keep going into the kernel to fsync() anyway?

 Ben

@narcissus.net -- finally



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