Re: [TEST(/review)] major/minor/devname fix

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:00:33 +0100
In message <20050310065126.GA28001_at_nagual.pp.ru>, Andrey Chernov writes:
>On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 07:32:39AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> There is no risk of collision, look at what devfs_random() does.
>
>What happens with whole devfs_random() logic, in case first devfs_seed 
>obtained after masking with 0xf0f becomes 0 again (as it was before)? And 
>second? And third? It may happens especially in some "no good entropy yet" 
>scenario.

Then somebody beats our PRNG maintainers over the head until they get
their act together.

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