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[src/trunk]: src/lib/libc Don't suggest removing arc4random with a libc bump.
details: https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/03206a817aee
branches: trunk
changeset: 933986:03206a817aee
user: nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date: Tue Jun 02 13:56:30 2020 +0000
description:
Don't suggest removing arc4random with a libc bump.
It's established enough in non-legacy code that this is a terrible idea.
Even if we add getentropy it's not a comparable API (not a userspace RNG
capable of streaming large numbers of bytes, doesn't have _uniform, etc).
"Feel free to remove that line!" - riastradh
diffstat:
lib/libc/shlib_version | 3 +--
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diffs (17 lines):
diff -r 3a9e012c41a5 -r 03206a817aee lib/libc/shlib_version
--- a/lib/libc/shlib_version Tue Jun 02 13:49:15 2020 +0000
+++ b/lib/libc/shlib_version Tue Jun 02 13:56:30 2020 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $NetBSD: shlib_version,v 1.288 2020/05/16 18:59:23 christos Exp $
+# $NetBSD: shlib_version,v 1.289 2020/06/02 13:56:30 nia Exp $
# Remember to update distrib/sets/lists/base/shl.* when changing
#
# things we wish to do on next major version bump:
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@
# - redo stdin/stdout/stderr to not require copy relocations
# - move gethostbyname to a compat library
# - remove badly hidden gethostbyname_r
-# - remove arc4random(3) API
# - decide whether soft-float should support fenv.h, including thread-local contett
# - stop all math functions from setting errno
# - boot obsolete signal functions to libcompat
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