Re: Clearing of Ram?

From: Peter Samuelson (peter@cadcamlab.org)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 06:44:53 EST


[Frank Peters]
> My question is
> who cleared it the kernel or the malloc function in glibc??
> (i found some code in glibc but nothing in kernel)

The kernel. Not to do so would be a security hole. (That memory could
have been used for *anything*.)

Peter
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