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From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libpam/modules/pam_unix pam_unix.c
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 msmith@hub.freebsd.org on Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 04:43:29PM -0800
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There was a thread about this on -arch 3 weeks ago.  I suggest that -arch
is a more appropraite forum for this discussion and have re-directed
followups.

On 2002-Feb-05 16:43:29 -0800, Mike Smith <msmith@hub.freebsd.org> wrote:
>> > I agree with Andrey here, pam_unix(8) should not clobber random()'s
>> > internal state.
>> 
>> OK. I have a local patch. As soon as I se that it survives the usual
>> build, I'll commit it.
>
>This won't make random() thread-safe.  Please fix the problem properly. 8)

Does this mean that we should implement random_r() and friends?

Peter


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