Re: chdir/rmdir

2008-04-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:02:27AM -0700, Randall Hyde wrote: >Hi, >I recently made a couple of calls like the following > >// currently in /x/y/z > >chdir( "/x/y" ); >rmdir( "/x/y/z" ); Presumably you checked the return codes and both these succeeded. >When I did at "gwd" call, it returned "/x/y

Re: Yarrow's Counter

2008-04-19 Thread Eygene Ryabinkin
Good day. Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 05:56:55PM +0100, RW wrote: > The random number generator in FreeBSD's Yarrow implementation uses > AES256 in counter mode. When a reseed occurs the generator is > reinitialised like this: > > - generate a new cypher-key from the pool[s] and the old key > - zero t

chdir/rmdir

2008-04-19 Thread Randall Hyde
Hi, I recently made a couple of calls like the following // currently in /x/y/z chdir( "/x/y" ); rmdir( "/x/y/z" ); When I did at "gwd" call, it returned "/x/y/z" along with ENOTDIR. Is this a known issue? I'm making low-level (assembly) calls via int 0x80 to do the above (not C stdlib), thoug

Yarrow's Counter

2008-04-19 Thread RW
The random number generator in FreeBSD's Yarrow implementation uses AES256 in counter mode. When a reseed occurs the generator is reinitialised like this: - generate a new cypher-key from the pool[s] and the old key - zero the counter - encrypt the (zeroed) counter with the new key My questio