From: "Aurélien Aptel" <aaptel@suse.com>
To: Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>,
Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>,
util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] newgrp: use libc explicit_bzero() when it is available
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 15:31:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mpseg0cl2xx.fsf@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4462d609-2049-7484-d6a8-53daf9b4534f@bernhard-voelker.de>
Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de> writes:
> Do you think it's worth making things even more complicated
> for overwriting a simple string? I mean, a simple
>
> for (char *c = xpwd; c; c++)
> c = '\0';
>
> would do, wouldn't it?
Play around with this example:
https://godbolt.org/g/SOSqt2
Compilers are pretty good at eliminated dead code as soon as you enable
optimizations nowadays, it's actually not that easy.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-09 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-05 22:33 [PATCH] newgrp: use libc explicit_bzero() when it is available Sami Kerola
2017-01-06 11:09 ` Bernhard Voelker
2017-01-06 12:15 ` Rüdiger Meier
2017-01-09 14:31 ` Aurélien Aptel [this message]
2017-01-16 11:31 ` Karel Zak
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