Matthew Martin <phy1...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 09:33:47AM +0100, Theo Buehler wrote: >> I think some of these are ok, but I'm unsure about some of the others. >> Here are some of my concerns: >> >> - since arc4random_uniform can potentially loop indefinitely, it >> might interfere with predictable timing of some routines. I can't >> tell if this is harmless in all cases below. This applies in >> particular to the proposed changes in the kernel. > > I hadn't considered timing problems. I'll look at it again tonight, but > someone more familiar with the code should certainly look at it before > committing. > >> - changing random() to arc4random() in games might have undesired >> side-effects like interfering with the reproducibility of tests or >> games. I think this might apply to awk for the same reason as in the >> shells. > > The patch for awk was wrong.
If there's a concern about upstream for nsd/sqlite/libevent, then note that awk has an upstream too. [...] -- jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE
