Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator

2018-12-17 Thread Chet Ramey
On 12/15/18 5:22 PM, Ole Tange wrote: >>> The reason for my submission was that I needed a bunch of random >>> numbers in a shell script, but I needed them to be high quality. >>> Luckily I did not just assume that Bash delivers high quality random >>> numbers, but I read the source code, and then

Re: Bash build issues in `devel' branch due to -Werror compiler flag

2018-12-17 Thread Chet Ramey
On 12/16/18 2:35 AM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote: > Commit 9d80be9ab5cc17011c634e0348c64c15fcba95bf adds the following compiler > flag: > > dualbus@debian:~/src/gnu/bash$ cat -n configure.ac | grep Werror -C3 > 1159 CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wno-parentheses -Wno-format-security" >