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Date:      Thu, 10 Mar 2022 21:21:17 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        emulation@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 262369] Add /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id
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John Hein <jcfyecrayz@liamekaens.com> changed:

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--- Comment #8 from John Hein <jcfyecrayz@liamekaens.com> ---
Note that the linux implementation of these is random, whereas the the free=
bsd
linuxulator implementation is not:

for ii in 1 2 3 4 ; do cat /compat/linux/proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid ; done
d5491552-a0b6-11ec-a963-90b11c7011ef
d5495a75-a0b6-11ec-a963-90b11c7011ef
d5497ded-a0b6-11ec-a963-90b11c7011ef
d549b78d-a0b6-11ec-a963-90b11c7011ef

One might consider this a deficiency or just an idiosyncratic difference
between linux and linuxulator.  But if it is a deficiency, this is a separa=
te
bug.  I only made a comment here instead of opening a bug since I'm not sur=
e if
I would call it a bug.  I guess I lean toward deficiency as the linux rando=
m(4)
page that documents these files (uuid & boot_id) says "These read-only files
contain random strings ...".  Maybe it's an open question whether people in=
 the
"real world" depend on true randomness for these values.

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