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Re: nbzic blocks needing entropy
On Wed, 7 Jun 2023, John Klos wrote:
I'm just thinking that a program which uses randomness to name temp files
shouldn't care about the quality of randomness, unless knowing the names
would lead to a security issue (in which case there are bigger problems).
Add a `-DHAVE_GETRANDOM=0' to src/tools/zic/Makefile (and maybe also
src/usr.sbin/zic/Makefile)? Then zic will use srand()/rand(). Right now,
it uses getrandom().
-RVP
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