Hi Mike, On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 07:22:13PM -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > >The second method requires to introduce the kern.arnd sysctl > >(KERN_ARND). FYI, note that NetBSD has kern.urandom (KERN_URND) and > >they define KERN_ARND to be an alias to this. > > I don't see any problem with introducing such a sysctl, if it would make > the propolice patch simpler.
Thanks for you answer. In that case, which sysctl should we use ? * OpenBSD's kern.arnd (KERN_ARND) which is a front-end to the arc4random() function ? * NetBSD's kern.urandom (KERN_URND) which is using the rnd(4) pseudo-device. They also have KERN_ARND in sysctl.h, which is no more than a #define of KERN_URND, for compatibility with OpenBSD. Usually, I noticed that FreeBSD used to be as close as possible with NetBSD. But I would like to hear the voice of a more experienced hacker about this. Thanks. Best regards, -- Jeremie Le Hen < jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org > _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"