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shred: change default number of overwrites from 25 to 3

* src/shred.c: The concensus is that a default of 3
passes is appropriate for current drive technologies.
* src/TODO: Reference Paul Eggert's suggestion
of enhancing shred to conform to DoD 5220 rules.
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Pádraig Brady
2009-01-22 13:09:44 +00:00
parent 2a8f5104cd
commit 83ae1bdd44
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@@ -107,6 +107,9 @@ sort: Investigate better sorting algorithms; see Knuth vol. 3.
5.3.1, who credits Lester Ford, Jr. and Selmer Johnson, American
Mathematical Monthly 66 (1959), 387-389.
shred: Update shred as described here to conform to DoD 5220 rules:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-05/msg00075.html
Remove suspicious uses of alloca (ones that may allocate more than
about 4k)
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@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
#include "randread.h"
/* Default number of times to overwrite. */
enum { DEFAULT_PASSES = 25 };
enum { DEFAULT_PASSES = 3 };
/* How many seconds to wait before checking whether to output another
verbose output line. */