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Date:      Wed, 1 Apr 2015 14:59:45 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r280955 - in head/sys: modules/notrandom dev/notrandom
Message-ID:  <20150401145945.GA67667@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <1427897897.82583.62.camel@freebsd.org>
References:  <20150401113628.GA16649@dft-labs.eu> <20150401114313.GZ64665@FreeBSD.org> <20150401115204.GB16649@dft-labs.eu> <1427897897.82583.62.camel@freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 08:18:17AM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 13:52 +0200, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> > As a side note I'm surprised with the choice of 7.
> > 
> > I would expect 3, no more, no less. 3 would be the number returned,
> > and the number readers receive would be 3.
> 
> 5 would be right out.

I haven't reviewed the code, but I trust you guys that it has to be prime.
Otherwise I'd vote for 42.

./danfe



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