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Date:      Wed, 19 Nov 2003 02:35:33 +0000
From:      Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To:        Rayson Ho <raysonlogin@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "secure" file flag?
Message-ID:  <20031119023533.GB90922@saboteur.dek.spc.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031119003133.18473.qmail@web11404.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20031119003133.18473.qmail@web11404.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:31:32PM -0800, Rayson Ho wrote:
> I am wondering if it is useful to have a "secure" file flag??
...
> e.g. when deleting a "secure" file, the OS will overwrite the file with
> random data.

I've got patches somewhere for zeroing out memory mappings in this way, but
they are incomplete. :-(

BMS



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