Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc

[Taylor R Campbell <campbell+netbsd-source-changes-d%mumble.net@localhost>]

   Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 22:29:03 +0200
   From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>

   On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 07:46:15PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
   > Read from /dev/urandom.  It scales better in multithreaded programs,
   > avoids fork issues (hanging, duplicate key streams, disclosure of
   > parents' secrets in unprivileged children), and works on ~any Unix,
   > not just on OpenBSD and whoever else parroted arc4random.

   Eh, no. That's a lot worse. The system call overhead alone is orders of
   magnitnude slower rthan any locking will ever be. That's completely
   ignoring the need for a file descriptor or /dev.

That's why the rest of my message, which you snipped, was all about
dealing with higher-throughput needs.