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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Permanent file deletion - sensitive data Post 302122424 by jim mcnamara on Wednesday 20th of June 2007 12:10:25 PM
Old 06-20-2007
There are command line utilties like GNU shred which can be installed and are free. It works well.

A problem arises when the file is on a RAID, or when the filesystem does not perform update in place -- a journaled or log structured fs for example. Then you have a wholly different problem. Then - none of these kind of programs work well.
 

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XtSetSensitive(3)						   XT FUNCTIONS 						 XtSetSensitive(3)

NAME
XtSetSensitive, XtIsSensitive - set and check a widget's sensitivity state SYNTAX
void XtSetSensitive(Widget w, Boolean sensitive); Boolean XtIsSensitive(Widget w); ARGUMENTS
sensitive Specifies a Boolean value that indicates whether the widget should receive keyboard and pointer events. w Specifies the widget. DESCRIPTION
The XtSetSensitive function first calls XtSetValues on the current widget with an argument list specifying that the sensitive field should change to the new value. It then recursively propagates the new value down the managed children tree by calling XtSetValues on each child to set the ancestor_sensitive to the new value if the new values for sensitive and the child's ancestor_sensitive are not the same. XtSetSensitive calls XtSetValues to change sensitive and ancestor_sensitive. Therefore, when one of these changes, the widget's set_values procedure should take whatever display actions are needed (for example, greying out or stippling the widget). XtSetSensitive maintains the invariant that if parent has either sensitive or ancestor_sensitive False, then all children have ances- tor_sensitive False. The XtIsSensitive function returns True or False to indicate whether or not user input events are being dispatched. If both core.sensitive and core.ancestor_sensitive are True, XtIsSensitive returns True; otherwise, it returns False. SEE ALSO
X Toolkit Intrinsics - C Language Interface Xlib - C Language X Interface X Version 11 libXt 1.0.5 XtSetSensitive(3)
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