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On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 08:46:33PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Random cookies? I prefer "arbitrary" over "random". The value plays no role > > at all, but it must be unique, preferably stable across reboots. > > The operative word in "preferably stable across reboots" is > "preferably". Because it basically cannot be in the general case, > and thus nothing must ever _assume_ it is. Sure. It is not "need". It is "quality of implementation". Consider NFS. Andries - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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