Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261508AbVANT5E (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:57:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262061AbVANT5E (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:57:04 -0500 Received: from abraham.CS.Berkeley.EDU ([128.32.37.170]:59915 "EHLO abraham.cs.berkeley.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261508AbVANT5B (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:57:01 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: daw@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) Newsgroups: isaac.lists.linux-kernel Subject: Re: short read from /dev/urandom Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:55:19 +0000 (UTC) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: isaac Message-ID: References: <41E7509E.4030802@redhat.com> Reply-To: daw-usenet@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) NNTP-Posting-Host: taverner.cs.berkeley.edu X-Trace: abraham.cs.berkeley.edu 1105732519 861 128.32.168.222 (14 Jan 2005 19:55:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:55:19 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Originator: daw@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 653 Lines: 11 Ulrich Drepper wrote: >On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 05:56:41 +0000 (UTC), David Wagner > wrote: >> True. Arguably, the solution is to fix the documentation. > >The problem is that no-short-reads behavior has been documented for a >long time and so programs might [become insecure] > >Not breaking the ABI is more important than symmetry. Ok, I see your point. I'm persuaded. Thanks. - 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/