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Date:      Sun, 14 Jan 2001 00:17:02 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab rc src/etc/defaults rc.conf src/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist src/libexec Makefile src/libexec/save-entropy Makefile save-entropy.sh 
Message-ID:  <200101132217.f0DMH2I21498@gratis.grondar.za>
In-Reply-To: <200101132203.f0DM3R935732@earth.backplane.com> ; from Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>  "Sat, 13 Jan 2001 14:03:27 PST."
References:  <200101132203.f0DM3R935732@earth.backplane.com> 

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I am now typing my 4th effort at answering this, and I am rather at a
loss for words.

Exactly what you are so loudly demanding below, is exactly what I offered
in my previous mail.

WILL YOU PLEASE GET OF MY CASE NOW!!!

M

>     The system had damn well have a reasonable default, regardless of what
>     is in /etc/rc.conf or /etc/defaults/rc.conf.  If you don't put it in,
>     I will.  It is simply not appropriate to commit code that can stall the
>     system on boot.  It is far more important to ensure that that DOES NOT 
>     HAPPEN then it is to be paranoid about cryptographically secure random
>     numbers.  Don't make the defaults ass-backwards, all you will do is
>     hang up some poor sod who will wind up spending a dozen man hours trying
>     to figure out why his computer won't boot.
> 
>     This bikeshed isn't going to go away until you people screw your heads
>     on right and make commits that don't create havoc with other developers.
>     It is NOT NECESSARY do that kind of shit to test your random number device
>     code.
> 
> 					-Matt
-- 
Mark Murray
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