From owner-cvs-all Tue Feb 5 15:18:47 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EFFF37B405; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 15:18:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g15NIZH09884; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 02:18:36 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ache) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 02:18:33 +0300 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Mark Murray , des@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libpam/modules/pam_unix pam_unix.c Message-ID: <20020205231832.GA9856@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20020205215540.GB8579@nagual.pp.ru> <200202052220.g15MKps32595@greenpeace.grondar.org> <20020205231051.GA9710@nagual.pp.ru> <20020205151540.Z59017@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020205151540.Z59017@elvis.mu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 15:15:40 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > BTW, to clarify my position: I not insist on using arc4random(), I insist > > on removing random(). You can replace arc4random() with any fastest code > > you wants. > > to address the speed issue you could implement internal functions to > save and restore the random() state. (as I've already suggested) Yes, I agree with this solution, if 3-4 times slowness for 14 calls plays any role. But current variant is not acceptable and must be fixed somehow. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message