On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 7:27 AM, wm4 <nfx...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 6 Dec 2015 22:56:33 -0500 > Ganesh Ajjanagadde <gajjanaga...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On non-BSD machines, there exists a package libbsd for providing BSD >> functionality. This can be used to get support for arc4random. >> >> Thus, an opt-in --enable-libbsd is added to configure for this >> functionality. >> >> Tested on GNU/Linux. >> > > This doesn't seem worth the trouble at all. Who is even going to use > it, and why, and what additional hidden bugs will it cause?
arc4random is a far superior interface, in that it can never fail. See http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/entropy.txt for details. As for hidden bugs, apart from configuration/detection issues, I see none. If anything, it is easier to use /dev/urandom incorrectly. Ultimately any code change is a tradeoff, with different people feeling differently about various things. I still feel that it is worth inclusion due to its technical merits. > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-devel mailing list > ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org > http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
