Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:00:33 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [TEST(/review)] major/minor/devname fix Message-ID: <31220.1110438033@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:51:26 %2B0300." <20050310065126.GA28001@nagual.pp.ru>
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In message <20050310065126.GA28001@nagual.pp.ru>, Andrey Chernov writes: >On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 07:32:39AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> There is no risk of collision, look at what devfs_random() does. > >What happens with whole devfs_random() logic, in case first devfs_seed >obtained after masking with 0xf0f becomes 0 again (as it was before)? And >second? And third? It may happens especially in some "no good entropy yet" >scenario. Then somebody beats our PRNG maintainers over the head until they get their act together. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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