Re: Bug#903815: ITP: pw -- A simple command-line password manager
Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> writes:
> Assuming it's small enough, using a pipe (or possibly a FIFO) could
> work. That's kernel memory and iirc it won't be swapped out. (I'm
> happy to be corrected on this, I'm basing it on what I've heard before
> and my recollection of it.)
There's a Kerberos ticket cache implementation (still a non-standard one,
though) that uses this mechanism since it even works across processes if
one is careful. It's a really interesting trick, although it has a few
drawbacks.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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