On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 01:51:05PM -0400, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 9 October 2012 13:27,  <m...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > The original behavior can be recovered by using inline assembly to
> > fetch the value from a register into a local C variable; this would at
> > least not rely on undefined behavior.  But I agree it's of dubious
> > value anyways.
> 
> I proposed this (with a patch). We want to move to not using
> /dev/random and instead make a kernel system call directly. The patch
> for this is not finished yet though.

You should do something similar to:

        http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/libc_arc4random.c.patch

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