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Re: [Nmh-workers] Message-IDs and Content-IDs

2012-07-19 14:57:17
Dumb question time: Do we want to introduce a dependency on /dev/random?
Looks like most people have it now.

Go for it.  It's 2012, and enough other things need a random number supply for
crypto that you can probably safely consider a system that still doesn't have
/dev/random as being somewhere between archaic and downright crippled.

What still doesn't have /dev/random, and what does software do to compensate?

I'm only mentioning this because we got recent bug reports about
things not working right because of a buggy snprintf() on an ancient
HPUX box.  Does the ancient HPUX box in question have /dev/random?  Good
question; dunno.

--Ken

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