On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:43:29 -0700 Ulrich Drepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Alan Cox wrote: > > Why does he want an unpredictable algorithm > > To avoid exactly the kind of problem we have now in future: programs > relying on specific patterns. Which you seem to think is a bad thing, yet is actually a very good thing because it means that crashes are repeatable and problems are debuggable from end user reports. Trying to randomize filehandles for the general case is not a productive activity. If you want to debug cases write yourself a glibc wrapper that does annoying things but don't inflict it on people who actually want to build working, testable, debuggable systems (ie most of us) Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
