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Re: Bug#903815: ITP: pw -- A simple command-line password manager



On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 03:14:20PM +0200, Dashamir Hoxha wrote:
It writes to `/dev/shm` which is not disk.

All else that's been said aside, this idea is also dangerously incorrect in a typical configuration: the tmpfs backend will write to swap under memory pressure. (This is also true of the memory used by the process; if it's actually important to keep data from being written to persistent storage, it should be set unswappable using mlock. I have no idea how one would do this effectively in a shell script.)

Mike Stone


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