On Thu, 17 Oct 1996 23:10:46 -0700 
 "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> wrote:

 > >What's the objection to clearing possibly-contaminated structures when a 
 > >program signifies its done with a privileged resource?
 > 
 > It causes any db client to pay this penalty regardless of what is stored
 > in the database.  That is bad design.

Right, and as I said previously, who's to know if there's other sensitive
data in the processes' address space... In addition to paying a performance
cost, you don't really solve anything.

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