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Re: zero filling pages

At 2:39 AM +0200 7/23/03, Nat! wrote:
Is there really no (reasonable easy) way to get around this ? Zero filling is my bottleneck currently.

I can see the rationale on a multi-user, time sharing system (AKA as the bad old days), but on a single-user machine like Mac OS X I would not deem it important enough. (Mac OS X Server maybe, but Mac OS X Client ?)


As an example of why users feel that this is an important security policy even on a single user machine, please see

http://www.macintouch.com/o98security.html

Note that while the issues mentioned in that report center around MS Office, the problem is not limited to any particular application. "Dirty" RAM can contain any data, and legitimate consumers of that memory can inadvertently pass along sensitive data if the memory isn't zeroed first.

-pmb
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