Re: Beta1 fail on cygwin32/mingw32 on NT4

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

From: zhu qun-ying <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

qyzhu> The code will compile fine with the copy header. But getting
qyzhu> address of the procedure will fail on NT so the related seeding
qyzhu> process will ignore. I am not sure how much it affects the
qyzhu> seeding.

Well, the heap will simply not be traversed and therefore not be used
to add entropy.  However, there's the rest...  So yeah, it means less
entropy, but at that point what can you do?  Or is there another to
traverse the heap (or parts of it) on NT?

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