On April 17, 2014 at 10:03 g...@gdt.id.au (Glen Turner) wrote: > Jason Iannone wrote: > > I can't cite chapter and verse but I seem to remember this zeroing > > problem was solved decades ago by just introducing a bit which said > > this chunk of memory or disk is new (to this process) and not zeroed > > but if there's any attempt to actually access it then read it back as > > if it were filled with zeros, or alternatively zero it.
Actually those were my words trying to describe kernel management of disk blocks, sparse files, etc, not user space. -b
