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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs-progs: utils: use better wrappered random generator
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 19:19:11 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan$bb742$78566cd9$5fc9402d$3fb62a5@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5d14ab66-9894-82da-91ca-5cbfd0a7d760@gmail.com

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


  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-25 19:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-23  3:10 [PATCH] btrfs-progs: utils: use better wrappered random generator Qu Wenruo
2016-05-23 12:01 ` David Sterba
2016-05-24  0:31   ` Qu Wenruo
2016-05-24  9:51     ` David Sterba
2016-05-25  0:33       ` Qu Wenruo
2016-05-25 11:11         ` David Sterba
2016-05-25 11:20           ` Hugo Mills
2016-05-25 12:39           ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-25 19:19             ` Duncan [this message]
2016-05-26  0:27             ` Qu Wenruo

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