Hi, At 1:28 pm -0400 20/7/99, Kelly Yancey wrote: >[...] > On recent thought though, I seem to recall having read in the 4.4BSD >Daemon book that having the kernel zero memory is not the preferred >practice, but present because when they tried to stop many progrems dies >which assumed memory was initialized to zero.
Handing out unzeroed memory is a potential security hole. -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 r...@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
