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author | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2010-08-12 15:47:25 -0700 |
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committer | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2010-08-12 15:47:25 -0700 |
commit | e251c8d0050acf8d3f35c91b6d2708fab5314ce7 (patch) | |
tree | 861fbfb218bc5bc94d4cc853c705af55f33a9ac7 /PORTING | |
parent | e2c1a82010cc4f35cb576d41c3c2020010503784 (diff) |
uuid: Break code to read /dev/urandom into a new module.
This code is useful for seeding other random number generators, so we might
as well make it a separate source file.
Diffstat (limited to 'PORTING')
-rw-r--r-- | PORTING | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -205,9 +205,9 @@ during a port: Miscellaneous Notes ------------------- -lib/uuid.c, used in OVSDB, assumes that it can obtain a high-quality -random number seed at startup by reading from /dev/urandom. You may -need to modify it if this is not true on your platform. +lib/entropy.c assumes that it can obtain high-quality random number +seeds at startup by reading from /dev/urandom. You will need to +modify it if this is not true on your platform. Questions --------- |