On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 18:50, Alexey Suslikov wrote: >> On Wednesday, September 19, 2012, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> >>> > arc4random() is also thread-safe (it has interal locking) and very >>> > desirable for other reasons. But no way to save state. >>> >>> The last part of this is intentional. Saving the state of pseudo >>> random number generators is a stupid concept from the 80's. >>> >> >> I see many rng functions behaving very differently. Is it a good idea >> to create a common locking layer on top of need-to-be-safe rng >> functions? Or we should deal only with original problem (and only >> port random.c code from netbsd)? > > just slap a mutex around it.
Could you guide me how to rebuild/reinstall libc in a proper way?
