From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50074 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751780AbcEYTTY (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2016 15:19:24 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b5eKu-0000LS-6W for linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 25 May 2016 21:19:20 +0200 Received: from ip98-167-165-199.ph.ph.cox.net ([98.167.165.199]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 May 2016 21:19:20 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip98-167-165-199.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 May 2016 21:19:20 +0200 To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs-progs: utils: use better wrappered random generator Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 19:19:11 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1463973049-3480-1-git-send-email-quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com> <20160523120112.GK29147@twin.jikos.cz> <20160524095155.GN29147@twin.jikos.cz> <913572bb-72f3-1428-f50c-4dc338d5c528@cn.fujitsu.com> <20160525111138.GP29147@suse.cz> <5d14ab66-9894-82da-91ca-5cbfd0a7d760@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Austin S. Hemmelgarn posted on Wed, 25 May 2016 08:39:08 -0400 as excerpted: > I would tend to agree with Hugo on this one, we should be using > /dev/urandom, not /dev/random. Add me to the list. I was wondering where urandom was in the discussion all along, but figured there must be some reason it was excluded that I as a non-dev simply didn't grok. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman