Re: nbzic blocks needing entropy

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

> On Jun 7, 2023, at 7:59 AM, John Klos <john%ziaspace.com@localhost> wrote:
> The man page for zic is... well, it's different, but I don't see any functions it'd do that'd need randomness. OTOH, lib/libc/time/zic.c shows randomness is used for creating temp files.
> 
> While people won't usually install a system, then immediately use it to compile without fully setting it up, I wonder if this use of random is a bit superfluous, or if at very least it should use non-blocking random?

It looks **completely** superfluous … especially since “x” is being used in the fopen() call.

-- thorpej