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Re: using explicit_bzero

Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>

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From: ilmari@ilmari.org (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker )
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-06-24T10:03:20Z
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Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.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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Commits

  1. Use explicit_bzero