Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:51:26 +0300 From: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [TEST(/review)] major/minor/devname fix Message-ID: <20050310065126.GA28001@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <6251.1110436359@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20050310062410.GA27497@nagual.pp.ru> <6251.1110436359@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 07:32:39AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > There is no risk of collision, look at what devfs_random() does. What happens with whole devfs_random() logic, in case first devfs_seed obtained after masking with 0xf0f becomes 0 again (as it was before)? And second? And third? It may happens especially in some "no good entropy yet" scenario. -- http://ache.pp.ru/
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