Re: Does Linux process exist information leakage?

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 20:53, Fredrick <fjohnber@zoho.com> wrote:

When you malloc a memory or mmap a MAP_ANON memory, it is virtually allocated. When you read or write to it, the process takes a page fault. The page fault handler zeroes those memory and hands it to the process. So I think there is no leak.

-Fredrick

Thanks for clearing that up. I learned something today. :) -- Peace and Blessings, -Scott.