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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: new widgets...
From:       Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date:       2002-09-27 6:39:02
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On Thursday September 26, 2002 11:30, Pupeno wrote:
> On Friday 27 September 2002 02:15, Ryan Cumming wrote:
> > If the password is no longer in memory, it can't be swapped.
>
> But while it's in memory.
> Supouse I write the password in a KPasswordEdit and then run OpenOffice
> (sorry folks, just joking) or something like that, and everything ends
> up swapped. the contents of KPasswordEdit (without my patch) would end
> up swapped or I'm missing something important here.

Er, and what about the communication between X and the KDE app?  Isn't that 
leaving copies of the keystrokes in RAM?

- -- 
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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