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Posted to dev@apr.apache.org by Ben Laurie <be...@algroup.co.uk> on 2003/05/16 15:56:51 UTC
PRNG
It has been suggested that I should make my new PRNG (as yet unwritten)
a part of APR, since the original motivation was to fix the UUID
problems in APR.
I'm more than happy to do that, it seems like the best way to get the
cross-platform support it needs, and it does mean there's one less
dependency for APR.
So, what do others think about this?
Cheers,
Ben.
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Re: PRNG
Posted by Ben Laurie <be...@algroup.co.uk>.
Jeff Trawick wrote:
> Ben Laurie wrote:
>
>> It has been suggested that I should make my new PRNG (as yet unwritten)
>> a part of APR, since the original motivation was to fix the UUID
>> problems in APR.
>
>
> If it serves as a general solution for all APR requirements (to be used
> always if no /dev/*random), it sounds like a good improvement.
I would actually want to use it even if /dev/random _is_ available,
though there may be some interesting issues there.
Cheers,
Ben.
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Re: PRNG
Posted by Jeff Trawick <tr...@attglobal.net>.
Ben Laurie wrote:
> It has been suggested that I should make my new PRNG (as yet unwritten)
> a part of APR, since the original motivation was to fix the UUID
> problems in APR.
If it serves as a general solution for all APR requirements (to be used
always if no /dev/*random), it sounds like a good improvement.
Re: PRNG
Posted by Bill Stoddard <bi...@wstoddard.com>.
Ben Laurie wrote:
>It has been suggested that I should make my new PRNG (as yet unwritten)
>a part of APR, since the original motivation was to fix the UUID
>problems in APR.
>
>I'm more than happy to do that, it seems like the best way to get the
>cross-platform support it needs, and it does mean there's one less
>dependency for APR.
>
>So, what do others think about this?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Ben.
>
Sounds like a good addition to APR.
+1
Bill
RE: PRNG
Posted by Sander Striker <st...@apache.org>.
> From: Ben Laurie [mailto:ben@algroup.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 3:57 PM
> It has been suggested that I should make my new PRNG (as yet unwritten)
> a part of APR, since the original motivation was to fix the UUID
> problems in APR.
>
> I'm more than happy to do that, it seems like the best way to get the
> cross-platform support it needs, and it does mean there's one less
> dependency for APR.
>
> So, what do others think about this?
+1
Sander