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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:17:17 -0500
From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2/4] /dev/random: Add pool name to entropy store
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On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:57:16AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> 
> This adds a pool name to the entropy_store data structure, which
> simplifies the debugging code, and makes the code more generic for
> adding additional entropy pools.

My version from last year called these "input", "blocking", and
"nonblocking", which I think added substantially to the readability
here.

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