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- From: zdenek@ksr.com (Zdenek Radouch)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: IMPORTANT [BUG in 0.99] Re: [ANNOUNCE]: linux version 0.99
- Message-ID: <20523@ksr.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 10:08:16 EST
- References: <1992Dec19.222324.22106@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1hpsasINN6e@meaddata.meaddata.com> <9236507.10435@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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- >For all multi-user operating systems (like Linux ;-), the operating
- >system must in general initialize the memory for security reasons.
- >Thus it is not time wasted.
-
- You are right, all operating systems do that. However, this is optional,
- i.e., the security is neither implicit nor always required.
- The memory MUST be initialized because it is defined so by the language.
- So even if it took unreasonable amount of time to initialize, that time
- is not wasted because you don't have any other option.
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