dynamic memory automatically zero'd

2010-08-06 Thread Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus
Hi all, if you allocate memory, e.g. via malloc(3), then it is automatically set to zero. This is actually a security feature quite common nowadays. I would like to know when this feature has made it into Fedora or in RHEL. Is this a mandatory feature of some security policy as e.g. the Common Cri

Re: dynamic memory automatically zero'd

2010-08-07 Thread Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus
On Fr, 2010-08-06 at 09:37 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 08/06/2010 07:44 AM, Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > if you allocate memory, e.g. via malloc(3), then it is automatically set > > to zero. This is actually a security feature quite common

Re: dynamic memory automatically zero'd

2010-08-08 Thread Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus
On Sa, 2010-08-07 at 09:43 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: [...] > Anonymous memory returned by mmap must be cleared. Memory provided by > sbrk can be cleared and it is on Linux. I found a couple of messages at the LKML where they talk about zeroing memory. For example this one: http://marc.info/?l

List all packages which have a build requirement on package foo

2019-08-19 Thread Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus
Hi all, How can I list all packages which have a *build* requirement on package foo? AFAIK build requirements are not stored as meta data in RPM files. Thus, repoquery won't help. The only option I am aware of would be to download all SPEC files and search for build requirements manually. Any othe

Re: List all packages which have a build requirement on package foo

2019-08-19 Thread Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus
On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 12:47:20PM -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Hi, > > Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus wrote: > > How can I list all packages which have a *build* requirement on package > > foo? AFAIK build requirements are not stored as meta data in RPM files. > > Thus