Life after free?

Dan Bernstein brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu
Fri Oct 5 07:09:48 AEST 1990


In article <623 at demott.COM> kdq at demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) writes:
>     It should be noted that in secure systems, free() will clear the memory.

That would be quite amusing, since there's absolutely no concept of
security within C. If you can free it, you can copy it out and save it
first.

---Dan



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