On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 2:12 PM <lgod...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks jake.. If previous comments I received indicate that I should put > the original question to rest,... but memguard.go suggests it should be > re-opened >
No, it suggests you don't understand what a garbage collector does and are unable to clearly articulate your question. Even if the Go GC ran at process exit time that would not provide the sort of guarantees provided by memguard.go. Projects like memguard.go are meant to help ensure secrets held in the memory space of a process don't leak to disk and are harder to discover if bugs in the program can be exploited by an adversary to exfiltrate the contents of its memory. A garbage collector is not designed to protect against such risks. -- Kurtis Rader Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
