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From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
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Hi Ed,

Sorry for the late reply.

On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 02:13:13PM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote:
> We probably could. I think I discussed this with Robert Watson some time
> ago and we could use things like ELF hints. But still, that doesn't
> prevent us from reaching this limitation later on.

Can you elaborate a little?  Are you talking about elf-hints.h?
I don't see where we can get randomness from it.

Thanks.
Regards,
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Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >