From owner-freebsd-security Fri May 21 16:24:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from narcissus.net (narcissus.net [209.73.230.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBA3814DF2 for ; Fri, 21 May 1999 16:24:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@narcissus.net) Received: by narcissus.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EE281184; Fri, 21 May 1999 19:15:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by narcissus.net (Postfix) with SMTP id DFD56183; Fri, 21 May 1999 19:15:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 19:15:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Snob Art Genre To: Avalon Books Cc: Joel Maslak , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Secure Deletion In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 20 May 1999, Avalon Books wrote: > Actually, I've done this already. At the moment, its a simple > stand-alone program (I originally wrote during my DOS days, years ago), > but I've been toying with the idea of adding the method in as an option > for 'rm'. No need to tie up the kernel with this sort of thing. Won't your program have to keep going into the kernel to fsync() anyway? Ben @narcissus.net -- finally To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message