On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Lennart Poettering
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 27.01.14 20:17, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> ([email protected]) wrote:
>> + uint64_t tries = TMP_MAX;
>> + int randfd, fd, i;
>> +
>> + assert(streq(s, "XXXXXX"));
>> +
>> + randfd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY);
>> + if (randfd < 0)
>> + return -ENOSYS;
>
> There's random_bytes() already, which is similar to this... It might
> make sense to use that here, maybe with an additional argument that
> tells it to never fallback to PRNG.
What it the point of all of this? Glibc uses gettimeofday or/and the
TSC for the random, in a retry loop. What problem is this patch
supposed to solve?
Kay
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