On November 2, 2026 8:28:09 PM GMT+02:00, "Enji Cooper (yaneurabeya)"
<[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Nov 2, 2026, at 9:10 AM, Jamie Landeg-Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Peter Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> IMO, it would be useful to have a way of saying e.g. "run once an hour
>>> but I don't care when within the hour".
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>> I assume that the time within the hour would be the same each hour? If so,
>> that would be useful.
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>> But would than initial state random number be stored somewhere, or reset
>> each time cron starts?
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><2 cents> (deflated)
>It would probably be better if the state was tracked at the system level
>instead of in the application itself.
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>As a bonus, employing jitter might improve overall system-level entropy,
>depending on how jobs are run and when, which could help cryptography some.
></2 cents>
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>Thanks,
>-Enji
what if (embedded) system with read-only filesystem reboots?
