Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 04:12:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc MAKEDEV Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007300407040.8844-100000@green.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200007300746.JAA07354@grimreaper.grondar.za>
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On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Mark Murray wrote: > > green 2000/07/29 20:15:12 PDT > > > > Modified files: > > etc MAKEDEV > > Log: > > Since the driver supports both (and may have different semantics for > > both soon...), create urandom instead of the link to random. It's > > also what makes sense according to the make_dev(9)'s in random(4). > > OI!! This is the permanent way! The device supporting /dev/urandom > was put there as a stopgap to stop folks huring themselves until they > got this link in place. > > Please back this out! And please ask me before making this kind of > change. Hold on a second here. People are requesting that yarrow _NOT_ be the /dev/random unless it can block and provide more than 256 bits of true entropy. This can't possibly happen happen unless the two devices can be differentiated between. Do you want people to be using a superior algorithm for /dev/random? > M > -- > Mark Murray > Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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