[ros-kernel] Re: page faults in msvcrt.dll

[Jakob E. <ja...@vm...>]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 10:21:50AM -0800, Rex Jolliff wrote:
> At 10:48 AM 10/28/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >It most certainly does effect correctness;  it is a security hole.
> 
> It effects correctness only if your requirement is to have C2 
> security.  This wont be the
> case for everyone using ReactOS however.  Personally I would rather see 
> speed over
> security in this case.  in VMS it is the allocators responsibility to mark 
> the pages as
> needing zeroing before reuse.  Too bad we cannot implement something like that.
> 

This will probably lead to problems running programs.
I can bet my hat on that some programs rely on that what they allocated
is zeroed out.

regards,
Jakob Eriksson


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