On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:13:41PM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:52:43PM -0500, David Schultz wrote: > > Why complicate things with atomics at all? A race might result in > > arc4random(9) being seeded multiple times, but that's harmless. > > Multiply seeding in line is harmless, just waste of time and resources. > Other case is one missing seeding when variable is set concurrently with > its read. I see no complication using atomic. Latest version is even > shorter than previous ones.
Well, I almost forget about my special case: I have personal prohibition from @secteam (5 years old already) to commit anything to all RNG areas. So, the question is: could anyone of you commit some version from this thread, please? I don't insist of atomics in this sutuation, so you can peek any version you like. -- http://ache.vniz.net/ _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
