Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 23:08:14 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Galbavy <peter@wonderland.org> To: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov Cc: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, karl@mcs.net, jdp@polstra.com, ache@nagual.ru, guido@gvr.win.tue.nl, phk@critter.tfs.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, tech-userlevel@NetBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/db/hash hash_buf.c Message-ID: <199610172208.XAA08702@alice.wonderland.org> In-Reply-To: <199610180646.XAA13336@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from "Jason Thorpe" at Oct 17, 96 11:46:37 pm
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> On Thu, 17 Oct 1996 23:10:46 -0700 > "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> wrote: > > > >What's the objection to clearing possibly-contaminated structures when a > > >program signifies its done with a privileged resource? > > > > It causes any db client to pay this penalty regardless of what is stored > > in the database. That is bad design. > > Right, and as I said previously, who's to know if there's other sensitive > data in the processes' address space... In addition to paying a performance > cost, you don't really solve anything. Only compile it in when DEBUG is defined or domething ? Regards, -- Peter Galbavy peter@wonderland.org @ Home phone://44/973/499465 in Wonderland http://www.wonderland.org/~peter/ snail://UK/NW1_6LE/London/21_Harewood_Avenue/
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