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Date:      Sun, 19 Aug 2018 12:27:34 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r338059 - in head: . contrib/ntp/lib/isc contrib/ntp/sntp/libevent crypto/heimdal/lib/roken crypto/openssh include lib/libc/gen lib/libc/include sys/crypto/chacha20
Message-ID:  <1534703254.27158.41.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <201808191740.w7JHeoSj052259@repo.freebsd.org>
References:  <201808191740.w7JHeoSj052259@repo.freebsd.org>

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On Sun, 2018-08-19 at 17:40 +0000, Xin LI wrote:
> Author: delphij
> Date: Sun Aug 19 17:40:50 2018
> New Revision: 338059
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/338059
> 
> Log:
>   Update userland arc4random() with OpenBSD's Chacha20 based
> arc4random().
>   
>     ObsoleteFiles.inc:
>   
>       Remove manual pages for arc4random_addrandom(3) and
>       arc4random_stir(3).
>   
>     contrib/ntp/lib/isc/random.c:
>     contrib/ntp/sntp/libevent/evutil_rand.c:
>   
>       Eliminate in-tree usage of arc4random_addrandom().
>   

If we don't feed changes for this back upstream, we're going to have to
carry diffs from mainline ntpd forever now. The upstream project is
receptive to taking diffs from us, but I guess we'd have to figure out
how to write some autotools detection to create some new HAVE_xxxx
variables for wrapping these calls.

Also, does this imply that the ntpd port will fail to build now? I
would imagine removing such fundamental routines would affect many
ports.

All in all, if it's just a matter of our implementation not needing
these functions, wouldn't it be better to implement them as no-ops and
document them as such existing only to aid porting existing code?

-- Ian




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