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Date:      Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:51:26 +0300
From:      Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [TEST(/review)] major/minor/devname fix
Message-ID:  <20050310065126.GA28001@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <6251.1110436359@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <20050310062410.GA27497@nagual.pp.ru> <6251.1110436359@critter.freebsd.dk>

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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.

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