Hi Bernhard, On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 8:37 PM Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Jason! > I'm a bit surprised that even if i give -n the seed is moved to > seed.credit. The next boot/run will find the now creditable seed and > happily add it, IIUC, despite i wanted it to not be credited? > Is this intentional?
Yes. You misunderstand the purpose of the utility. It creates a creditable seed when the kernel is able to produce safe random numbers. In that case, the creditability or non-creditability of the previous seed does not matter. > > PPS: I'm attaching some fiddle on top of your v8 which would give a > relative savings of I'm not _super_ comfortable with all of these, and I don't know if I feel good about attaching them to the original commit. At this late-stage of golfing, we really risk introducing excessively brittle code and bringing along new bugs with it. These additional strokes need to be considered very carefully and individually. So I think at this point, I'm done on the green, and I think what you ought to do is commit my v8, and then send your patches as a series, and I'll take the time to look very carefully at each one individually and comment on them. And by keeping those as separate commits, if we both do miss something, it'll be easier to revert and for others to notice the error too. Does that plan sound okay to you? Commit v8, and then tee off a new golfing series? Jason _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox