Re: using explicit_bzero

From: ilmari(at)ilmari(dot)org (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker )
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: using explicit_bzero
Date: 2019-06-24 10:03:20
Message-ID: d8jsgrzwb9z.fsf@dalvik.ping.uio.no
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Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> writes:

> On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 09:56:40PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On 2019-06-21 15:45, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
>>> Also, on Linux it requires libbsd: https://libbsd.freedesktop.org/
>>
>> No, it's in glibc.
>
> From man:
> explicit_bzero() first appeared in glibc 2.25.

Ah, I was looking on my Debian Stretch (stable) box, which only has
glibc 2.24. Buster (testing, due out next week) has 2.28 which indeed
has it.

- ilmari
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