From: zdenek@ksr.com (Zdenek Radouch) Subject: Re: IMPORTANT [BUG in 0.99] Re: [ANNOUNCE]: linux version 0.99 Date: 30 Dec 1992 15:08:16 GMT
>For all multi-user operating systems (like Linux ;-), the operating
>system must in general initialize the memory for security reasons.
>Thus it is not time wasted.
You are right, all operating systems do that. However, this is optional,
i.e., the security is neither implicit nor always required.
The memory MUST be initialized because it is defined so by the language.
So even if it took unreasonable amount of time to initialize, that time
is not wasted because you don't have any other option.
-Z