RE: Overcommit and calloc()

[Bob Bishop]

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.


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