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| -rw-r--r-- | TODO | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/shred.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 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) diff --git a/src/shred.c b/src/shred.c index 224f671cc..6ed4daaa3 100644 --- a/src/shred.c +++ b/src/shred.c @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ #include "randread.h" /* Default number of times to overwrite. */ -enum { DEFAULT_PASSES = 25 }; +enum { DEFAULT_PASSES = 3 }; /* How many seconds to wait before checking whether to output another verbose output line. */ |