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Subject: Re: new widgets...
From: Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date: 2002-09-26 21:26:58
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On Thursday September 26, 2002 02:19, Marc Mutz wrote:
> On Thursday 26 September 2002 15:32, Alexander Kellett wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > Alex (who's just starting reading too many man pages on his system)
>
> grep for root or superuser in man mlock ;-)
>
> Also, it has nothing to do with char* vs. Qstring. We use char* to be
> able to know the memory locations to wipe later on. QString is
> implicity shared, just creating one fromLatin1() will make a copy. If
> you want to wipe it, it will do COW and you achieve nothing ;-)
And what exactly do you hope to achieve by wiping? Do you think it will
thwarting a hostile superuser? Do you think it will protect your system
from someone with physical access to your memory and hard disk?
- --
Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding
because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they
have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher
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