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Re: master 3139551: Don’t attempt to modify constant strings

From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: master 3139551: Don’t attempt to modify constant strings
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 15:49:20 -0700
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On 5/18/20 12:03 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:

On Mai 17 2020, Paul Eggert wrote:


That would run afoul of the whole idea of clearing the string in the first
place, which was to avoid having one's password lying around in memory for a bad
actor to grab it.


But doing it in the caller is equally bad.


True, thanks, I installed the attached.

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