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

[David Mercer]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Peter Gutmann <pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz>wrote:

> 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.


Windows automatically manages the swapfile, you have to go in and over-ride
things to set its location and/or size explicitly. Its a hidden file by
default, and I don't think it supports swap partitions.

-David Mercer
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