Terminal scrollback written to local disk, including remote ssh sessions.

Re:Terminal scrollback written to local disk, including remo... by bluesign on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @08:31AM (#3675381)

It sounds like complaining about "cache" in a browser. Storing scrollback in memory can also store it on disk when swapped.

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Re:Terminal scrollback written to local disk, including remo... by gaius on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @08:55AM (#3675461)

I'd hope that we all know about mlock() by now http://linux.die.net/man/2/mlock

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Re:Terminal scrollback written to local disk, including remo... by deltaray on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @09:18AM (#3675549)

Yes, it sounds like it. The difference being that most people expect the browser to cache data to disk and it even uses this wording in the preferences. Most people using the command line don't expect the data in the scrollback to be written to disk.

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Re:Terminal scrollback written to local disk, including remo... by rmc on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @08:36AM (#3675402)

Most sensitive web browser data would not be cached.

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