[Cryptography] It's all K&R's fault

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Wed Apr 23 12:31:20 EDT 2014


Tom Mitchell <mitch at niftyegg.com> writes:

>Swap is still needed, the size is open to discussion.
>
>The reason is the fork(); exec() pair. 

That's obviously a Unix-specific thing, because Windows will run with zero
swap quite happily.  I don't think I've ever used a swapfile under any
NT-kernel version of Windows.

Peter.



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