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Date:      Sun, 19 Nov 2000 12:10:18 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "monotonic" counter commit candidate. Reviews, please. 
Message-ID:  <200011191010.eAJAASJ14890@gratis.grondar.za>
In-Reply-To: <3A17A3F1.B9E6A109@elischer.org> ; from Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>  "Sun, 19 Nov 2000 01:57:05 PST."
References:  <3A17A3F1.B9E6A109@elischer.org> 

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> Why are you adding a copyright (1993?) by UCB? Considereing that you
> don't have 
> any affiliation with them, and you can't assign copyright to someone
> without their 
> knowledge. I suggest changing it to Freebsd inc.

Will do.

> I'd like to see all this entropy stuff more 'rip-outable' than it is.
> The smallest kernel you can actually make is getting HUGE.

Have you looked at the function? For anything other than i386/i486
it is one instruction.

I was very careful to make /dev/random rip-outable, and this will make
/dev/random smaller and faster.

M
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