Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 17:46:33 +0200 From: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> To: Benjamin Kaduk <bjkfbsd@gmail.com> Cc: "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, Mark R V Murray <mark@grondar.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r280955 - in head/sys: modules/notrandom dev/notrandom Message-ID: <20150401154633.GA14631@dft-labs.eu> In-Reply-To: <CAJ5_RoAAnV8bTUeD-Okdy2JJkUyyS3Fy%2BhrP8kKz0s=nZG615g@mail.gmail.com> References: <20150401113628.GA16649@dft-labs.eu> <20150401114313.GZ64665@FreeBSD.org> <20150401115204.GB16649@dft-labs.eu> <1427897897.82583.62.camel@freebsd.org> <551C0A92.8070507@freebsd.org> <551C0B2A.9060006@freebsd.org> <5A609CED-56E6-4459-8505-58930048AA0D@grondar.org> <CAJ5_RoAAnV8bTUeD-Okdy2JJkUyyS3Fy%2BhrP8kKz0s=nZG615g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 11:36:26AM -0400, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Mark R V Murray <mark@grondar.org> wrote: > > > > > > > Before someone makes a terrible mistake, I should point out that 4 is > > confirmed random, as cited here: https://xkcd.com/221/ > > > But surely to be non-random we need an equal number of 1 and 0 bits, making > 15 the clear choice. > I don't know man. First off, '7' could not be chosen at random. I'm convinced factors like amount of CPUs (and their speed), RAM etc. played a huge factor here. Now that everything is faster these days, one could ponder returning '8'. We can add an ioctl to control this. Opinions? -- Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com>
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