"secure" file flag?

Bruce M Simpson bms at spc.org
Tue Nov 18 18:35:50 PST 2003


On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:31:32PM -0800, Rayson Ho wrote:
> I am wondering if it is useful to have a "secure" file flag??
...
> e.g. when deleting a "secure" file, the OS will overwrite the file with
> random data.

I've got patches somewhere for zeroing out memory mappings in this way, but
they are incomplete. :-(

BMS


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