Re: nbzic blocks needing entropy

RVP <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.toolchain
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Wed, 7 Jun 2023, John Klos wrote:

> I'm just thinking that a program which uses randomness to name temp files 
> shouldn't care about the quality of randomness, unless knowing the names 
> would lead to a security issue (in which case there are bigger problems).
>

Add a `-DHAVE_GETRANDOM=0' to src/tools/zic/Makefile (and maybe also
src/usr.sbin/zic/Makefile)? Then zic will use srand()/rand(). Right now,
it uses getrandom().

-RVP
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