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Date:      Thu, 20 May 1999 00:24:19 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        "Ilmar S. Habibulin" <ilmar@ints.ru>
Cc:        posix1e@cyrus.watson.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: secure deletion 
Message-ID:  <199905200624.AAA04145@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 May 1999 09:59:40 %2B0400." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905200957550.18001-100000@ws-ilmar.ints.ru> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905200957550.18001-100000@ws-ilmar.ints.ru>  

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905200957550.18001-100000@ws-ilmar.ints.ru>
"Ilmar S. Habibulin" writes:
: Bzero can be changed to some other function, is suppose that this is not a
: question. The question is if this thing is needed by comunity.

There is a certain segment of the community that would use it.  If
there was zero overhead (beyond a bit compare on unlink) when not
used, binary compatible with current disks and a fairly clean
implementation, then I think that there would be support for its
inclusion.

Warner



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