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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2009-01-22 13:09:44 +0000 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2009-01-22 13:26:04 +0000 |
| commit | 83ae1bdd44432055e2cb6cf1502d1cc0cd651746 (patch) | |
| tree | d0df0a7560ef8b01dd391ec801617bd990675893 /TODO | |
| parent | 2a8f5104cd4ee76dad4b803f04ec327e5199bcf8 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-83ae1bdd44432055e2cb6cf1502d1cc0cd651746.tar.xz | |
shred: change default number of overwrites from 25 to 3
* src/shred.c: The concensus is that a default of 3
passes is appropriate for current drive technologies.
* src/TODO: Reference Paul Eggert's suggestion
of enhancing shred to conform to DoD 5220 rules.
Diffstat (limited to 'TODO')
| -rw-r--r-- | TODO | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -107,6 +107,9 @@ sort: Investigate better sorting algorithms; see Knuth vol. 3. 5.3.1, who credits Lester Ford, Jr. and Selmer Johnson, American Mathematical Monthly 66 (1959), 387-389. +shred: Update shred as described here to conform to DoD 5220 rules: +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-05/msg00075.html + Remove suspicious uses of alloca (ones that may allocate more than about 4k) |