Gentoo Archives: gentoo-security

From: Nathanael Hoyle <nhoyle@××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] Advice about security solution
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 20:26:33
Message-Id: 43725A2E.3080803@speedexpress.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-security] Advice about security solution by unaos
1 unaos wrote:
2 > On 06:30 Wed 09 Nov , Brian G. Peterson wrote:
3 >
4 >>Also, you should seriously consider making your compressed file in a RAM disk
5 >>instead of in /tmp, to avoid any issues with disk scanning. (I know these are
6 >>system logs that are already on the system disk in plain-text, but it never
7 >>hurts to think about what might get left behind somewhere).
8 >
9 >
10 > How can bash script do malloc() ?
11
12 The poster did not mention malloc. The poster suggested a RAM disk.
13 shmfs on a mount point would satisfy this requirement without needing to
14 introduce the complexity of malloc into the bash script.
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