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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
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