[libdispatch-dev] [PATCH] arc4random

[Robert Watson]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Joakim Johansson wrote:

> No, it doesn't seem supported.
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> /dev/urandom && /dev/random is supported though, and seems to be on all of 
> OS X, FreeBSD and Linux platforms (and more), perhaps I'm missing something, 
> but couldn't we simply read random data from that source instead?

The temptation would be to provide a compat shim for sranddev() for systems 
that don't implement it.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge

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> On 19 nov 2009, at 08.44, Robert N. M. Watson wrote:
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>> Does Solaris have an sranddev()?
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