<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/10/2, David Faure <<a href="mailto:faure@kde.org">faure@kde.org</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
kostja has been working on replacing all those bools in the KIO job public API with proper flags,<br>but he didn't send me the final version of his patch today, I guess there was a miscommunication.<br>I would really like to have this in kde4 though :(
<br><br>KIO::DeleteJob *job = KIO::del(url, HideProgressInfo)</blockquote><div><br>Would it be possible to use flags instead of HideProgressInfo (an enum, right?) so that shredding can be readded later? Sometimes you want to be sure that the data is really destroyed.
<br>I'm sure that some people will now point out that you have to overwrite data a gazillion times to be sure. The paper saying this is outdated, and the author says on his webpage that on modern harddisks overwriting once with random data is most probably enough. Sorry, I can't be bothered to look it up.
<br>Semi-offtopic: Shredding probably doesn't work for flash storage because flash drives reshuffle sectors a lot to distribute wear evenly.<br></div></div>