Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:28:07 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Randomness and vnodes Message-ID: <19990314112807.K429@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199903131704.TAA97969@greenpeace.grondar.za>; from Mark Murray on Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 07:04:19PM %2B0200 References: <199903131704.TAA97969@greenpeace.grondar.za>
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On Saturday, 13 March 1999 at 19:04:19 +0200, Mark Murray wrote: > Hi > > One for you filesystem types; of all the parts of a struct vnode, > which are the most dynamic? Which would be the most usable as > input for an entropy collector running in the namei cache? > > The ones I am most interested in are the simple types; pointers, > ints (short or long) or chars. Volatile would be good :-) Depends on how many bits you want. Most pointers will have the top 4 bits set and the bottom 2 bits cleared. Why do you want to use a vnode? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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