Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 12:15:33 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Randomness and vi Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101121213540.24744-100000@dt051n37.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <3A5F4E50.B8FC5A97@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Mark Murray wrote: > > > > <<On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 01:52:55 -0800, Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> said: > > > > > > > found out the hard way that vi needs randomness to run when I was doing > > > > > > vi doesn't need randomness to run. > I suspect that in fact vi relies upon mkstemp, which IMHO by definition should > use secure RNG. We have a winner. :) Doug -- "The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment." -- Theodore H. White Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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