On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 10:11:55AM +1100, Simon Burge wrote:
> A couple of months ago there was a discussion about ip_randomid() and
> the related randomid(3) libc function being able to return consecutive
> IDs every now and then.  Should we disable these functions until they
> are fixed to not show this behaviour?  I've added a regression test
> for this too.

Yes.  Didn't we also pretty much reach consensus that most of the uses
of these functions that Itojun added to our tree should be disabled by
default?  I must admit that I am mystified as to why they are still
there.  The code is broken; its security benefit is questionable; in
at least one case, a far better -- because it doesn't repeat -- and
cheaper -- because it avoids the math -- approach is well-known and in
use in Solaris.  Why are we stuck with the status quo as of months ago?

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 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