Re: RAND_poll() on NT was Re: Beta1 fail on cygwin32/mingw32 on NT4

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

From: Jeffrey Altman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

jaltman> But once again Peter Gutmann tells us what to do.  On NT he suggests
jaltman> using the NetAPI32 library.
jaltman> 
jaltman>   LPBYTE outbuf;
jaltman>   if (NetStatisticsGet( NULL, SERVICE_WORKSTATION, 0, 0, &outbuf) == 0) {
jaltman>       RAND_add( outbuf, sizeof(STAT_WORKSTATION_0), 0);
jaltman>       NetApiBufferFree(outbuf);
jaltman>   }
jaltman>   if (NetStatisticsGet( NULL, SERVICE_SERVER, 0, 0, &outbuf) == 0) {
jaltman>     RAND_add( outbuf, sizeof(STAT_SERVER_0), 0);
jaltman>     NetApiBufferFree(outbuf);
jaltman>   }
jaltman> 
jaltman> and reading system performance statistics from the registry.
jaltman> 
jaltman>   ReqQueryValueEx( HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA, "Global", NULL, NULL,
jaltman>       buffer, &length);
jaltman>   RAND_add( buffer, length, 0);

Would you be willing to produce a patch?  Can't promise that it will
go into the release, but surely shortly after.

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