Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:48:54 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: short read from /dev/urandom |
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Hi! > >What do you think? Does gcc -pg calls sigaction with SA_RESTART, to > >avoid changing the behaviour of the programs that it is profiling? > > Profiling certainly uses SA_RESTART. But this was just one possible > problem case. > > I'm concerned that there is isgnificant code out there relying on the > no-short-read promise. And perhaps more importantly, other > implementations promise the same.
Well, but such code will need to be fixed, anyway; pre-2.6.10 kernels will stay here for quite a long time. Pavel -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms
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