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On 10 Aug 2020, 23:39, Todd C. Miller < todd.mil...@sudo.ws> wrote:
On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 16:05:12 -, Rupert Gallagher wrote:
> Omit the last line of the manual, because there is no need for it.
It's a play on the old joke:
What's the difference between
On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 10:02:24PM -0400, Jon Fineman wrote:
> I have an Acer Aspire A315 laptop that freezes every once in a while. I
> think it is GPU related, but have not been able to get any logs. In
> addition a while ago (roughly when 6.7 came out) I tried to upgrade
> from 6.6 to 6.7 and
Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> Theo de Raadt wrote in
> <61139.1597087...@cvs.openbsd.org>:
> |Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
> |> Am 10.08.20 um 17:00 schrieb Theo de Raadt:
> |>> Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
> |>>
> |>>> OpenBSD has the explicit_bzero function to reliably (i.e. even if not
>
Tim van der Molen wrote:
> Philipp Klaus Krause (2020-08-10 21:00 +0200):
> > Am 10.08.20 um 17:00 schrieb Theo de Raadt:
> > > Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
> > >
> > >> OpenBSD has the explicit_bzero function to reliably (i.e. even if not
> > >> observable in the C abstract machine) overwrite
Todd C. Miller wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 16:05:12 -, Rupert Gallagher wrote:
>
> > Omit the last line of the manual, because there is no need for it.
>
> It's a play on the old joke:
>
> What's the difference between a piano and a fish?
> You can tune a piano, but you can't
On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 16:05:12 -, Rupert Gallagher wrote:
> Omit the last line of the manual, because there is no need for it.
It's a play on the old joke:
What's the difference between a piano and a fish?
You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish!
No one would dare remove the
Philipp Klaus Krause (2020-08-10 21:00 +0200):
> Am 10.08.20 um 17:00 schrieb Theo de Raadt:
> > Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
> >
> >> OpenBSD has the explicit_bzero function to reliably (i.e. even if not
> >> observable in the C abstract machine) overwrite memory with zeroes.
> >>
> >> WG14 is
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 04:05:12PM +, Rupert Gallagher wrote:
> Omit the last line of the manual, because there is no need for it.
>
there's always a need for humour! i think that sentence is an important
part of the tunefs(8) man page (and no, i'm not being sarcastic).
> Add the units used
Omit the last line of the manual, because there is no need for it.
Add the units used by the average file size, because of ambiguity.
-g avgfilesize
This specifies the expected average file size, expressed in bytes??? .
> Our base tree has 641 calls to explicit_bzero, because previous
> commitees fucked the C language and created hundreds of not thousands of
> security vulnerabilities by leaving data on the stack. In application
> software, both explicit_memset and explicit
Sorry I didn't finish the last
Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
> Am 10.08.20 um 17:00 schrieb Theo de Raadt:
> > Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
> >
> >> OpenBSD has the explicit_bzero function to reliably (i.e. even if not
> >> observable in the C abstract machine) overwrite memory with zeroes.
> >>
> >> WG14 is currently
Am 10.08.20 um 17:00 schrieb Theo de Raadt:
> Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
>
>> OpenBSD has the explicit_bzero function to reliably (i.e. even if not
>> observable in the C abstract machine) overwrite memory with zeroes.
>>
>> WG14 is currently considering adding similar functionality to C2X.
>
> > On 4 Aug 2020, at 17:04, Marko Cupać wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have recently upgraded (actually installed from scratch and copied
> > config files) one of my firewalls from 6.6 to 6.7, and (sys)patched
> > it to 017_dix. Everything works great except my npppd setup. It
> > starts fine,
Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
> OpenBSD has the explicit_bzero function to reliably (i.e. even if not
> observable in the C abstract machine) overwrite memory with zeroes.
>
> WG14 is currently considering adding similar functionality to C2X.
Then perhaps in the interests of the public they
On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 10:01:43AM -0600, Andy Bradford wrote:
> Thus said Jonathan Gray on Sun, 09 Aug 2020 12:39:36 +1000:
>
> > When this came up previously running i386 resulted in being able to
> > read the atombios. Can you confirm that is the case here?
>
> Yes, this is the case. I
OpenBSD has the explicit_bzero function to reliably (i.e. even if not
observable in the C abstract machine) overwrite memory with zeroes.
WG14 is currently considering adding similar functionality to C2X.
Considered options include:
* A function like explicit_bzero or memset_explicit, that
On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 09:46:00PM +0100, Julian Smith wrote:
> I've just used adjfreq() directly to correct my hardware clock, which
> was running an hour ahead of UTC (due to my hardware previously running
> Windows).
>
> But i've struggled to understand the adjfreq(2) man page, so ended up
>
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