Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 13:51:05 -0400 From: Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org> To: mdf@freebsd.org Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r241373 - head/lib/libc/stdlib Message-ID: <CAF6rxgkaoQKdrKBUj1GFcEDtoZ8gM0w68zxn-S2bgJdntp88Kg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAMBSHm8GCDvJCHYcrPBQ6awKWnmNpnS-9YgX1uAoOePjZhf9QA@mail.gmail.com> References: <201210091425.q99EPFS6020787@svn.freebsd.org> <507451DE.9060909@freebsd.org> <977E1107-46D4-476F-A04D-AEFD87D1DE53@FreeBSD.org> <CAMBSHm8GCDvJCHYcrPBQ6awKWnmNpnS-9YgX1uAoOePjZhf9QA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 9 October 2012 13:27, <mdf@freebsd.org> wrote: > The original behavior can be recovered by using inline assembly to > fetch the value from a register into a local C variable; this would at > least not rely on undefined behavior. But I agree it's of dubious > value anyways. I proposed this (with a patch). We want to move to not using /dev/random and instead make a kernel system call directly. The patch for this is not finished yet though. -- Eitan Adler Source & Ports committer X11, Bugbusting teams
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