memory pages nulling when releasing
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
des at des.no
Sun Jun 18 17:33:26 UTC 2006
"Nick Borisov" <neiro21 at gmail.com> writes:
> Could you tell me if FreeBSD supports memory page nulling when
> releasing it to prevent unauthorized access to data left in the page
> after it's allocated again.
Processes always get zeroed pages from the kernel. This is the case
for all Unices, and has been for decades.
DES
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