svn commit: r280955 - in head/sys: modules/notrandom dev/notrandom

Mark R V Murray mark at grondar.org
Wed Apr 1 15:51:18 UTC 2015


> On 1 Apr 2015, at 16:46, Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik at gmail.com> wrote:
> We can add an ioctl to control this.

Thats a bad idea, because some fool may set up their local instance to return a random number (like 4), and that will badly break the intent of this device.

And before somebody says “tools, not policy”, there is SOME level of protection that you must allow for to prevent completely idiotic admins to foul things up!

> Opinions?

“Pah!”?

M
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