CyberPsychotic wrote:
> I could rework the patch to use /dev/random instead though :)
That doesn't seem like a good idea. The rate at which /dev/random can
generate data is limited by available sources of entropy. If you
exhaust its pool of random numbers, reading from it will block until
it gets enough random bits to generate some more.
A quick check seems to indicate that /dev/random won't be able to
provide enough data for generating ephemeral port numbers unless the
system is *very* lightly loaded.
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