On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 11:52:12PM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> >I understand your position, but I think the name is honestly a very
> >bad one.
> >What if we worked to get FreeBSD etc. to change the name, too?
> 
> 	i think it too late, just like good old "CREAT instead of CREATE"
> 	example.  it is way too widely deployed, it's not only for BSD but also
> 	in tons of thirdparty softwares, like pipermail, linux PAM, linux ipsec,
> 	apache2, and more.

There are lots of functions we do not supply in our libc that Linux does
supply; I'm not sure I buy this argument for the userland version of this
code.

I'm not sure I grasp how use in the linux kernel is relevant to use in our
kernel.  For example, the Linux IPsec will *never* run in our kernel (it
hardly runs in the Linux kernel), so I think that that's a total non-example.

Anyway, at this point I'm more concerned about the code itself.  I still
think it probably leaks key bits after it reseeds.

-- 
 Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
   But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common
 objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp!  You towel!  You
 plate!" and so on.              --Sigmund Freud