svn commit: r241373 - head/lib/libc/stdlib

[Eitan Adler]

On 9 October 2012 13:27,  <mdf at freebsd.org> wrote:
> The original behavior can be recovered by using inline assembly to
> fetch the value from a register into a local C variable; this would at
> least not rely on undefined behavior.  But I agree it's of dubious
> value anyways.

I proposed this (with a patch). We want to move to not using
/dev/random and instead make a kernel system call directly. The patch
for this is not finished yet though.


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Eitan Adler
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