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Date:      Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:44:25 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>
Cc:        mdf@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r241373 - head/lib/libc/stdlib
Message-ID:  <20121011114425.GA1562@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgkaoQKdrKBUj1GFcEDtoZ8gM0w68zxn-S2bgJdntp88Kg@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> <CAF6rxgkaoQKdrKBUj1GFcEDtoZ8gM0w68zxn-S2bgJdntp88Kg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 01:51:05PM -0400, Eitan Adler wrote:
> 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.
>=20
> 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.

You should do something similar to:

	http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/libc_arc4random.c.patch

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