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Re: Default number of overwrites in shred

From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: Default number of overwrites in shred
Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 23:01:33 -0700
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Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> writes:

> A better option I think is to use O_DIRECT, but again
> portability is going to be the issue here.

Shouldn't be a problem.  shred already uses O_DIRECT if available.

On Solaris, it uses directio(), for the same reason.
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