Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 16:55:45 +0400 From: Andrey Chernov <ache@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: svn commit: r226100 - head/sys/teken/stress Message-ID: <20111007125544.GA26576@vniz.net> In-Reply-To: <201110071242.p97Cg3u5011052@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201110071242.p97Cg3u5011052@svn.freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 12:42:03PM +0000, Ed Schouten wrote: > Author: ed > Date: Fri Oct 7 12:42:03 2011 > New Revision: 226100 > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/226100 > > Log: > Simply let teken_stress use arc4random. > > This makes it run quite a bit faster, since it makes system calls less > often. It is because we still have in some sense incorrect (father&son the same sequence after fork) arc4random() implementation with the patch stucking in the so-called "FreeBSD Security Team" review already several years. OpenBSD version have at least one syscall per arc4random() call - getpid(). -- http://ache.vniz.net/
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