Re: nbzic blocks needing entropy
Jason Thorpe <[email protected]>
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> On Jun 7, 2023, at 7:59 AM, John Klos <[email protected]> wrote: > The man page for zic is... well, it's different, but I don't see any functions it'd do that'd need randomness. OTOH, lib/libc/time/zic.c shows randomness is used for creating temp files. > > While people won't usually install a system, then immediately use it to compile without fully setting it up, I wonder if this use of random is a bit superfluous, or if at very least it should use non-blocking random? It looks **completely** superfluous … especially since “x” is being used in the fopen() call. -- thorpej