From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Alexander Gabert <pappy@gentoo.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
libc-alpha@sourceware.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
hardened@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_random_long() and AT_ENTROPY for auxv, kernel 2.6.21.5
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:39:12 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0706200937280.3593@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <467948F5.3010709@gentoo.org>
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Alexander Gabert wrote:
>
> this patch adds the function drivers/char/random.c:get_random_long()
It's totally whitespace-damaged, and I wonder why the "int" vs "long" is
so important. Also, what are the performance implications for execve?
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-20 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-17 23:40 AT_ENTROPY1 and AT_ENTROPY2 values for include/linux/auxvec.h Alexander Gabert
2007-06-18 1:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-18 1:28 ` Alexander Gabert
2007-06-18 1:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-18 10:36 ` Alexander Gabert
2007-06-20 15:34 ` [PATCH] get_random_long() and AT_ENTROPY for auxv, kernel 2.6.21.5 Alexander Gabert
2007-06-20 15:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-20 16:39 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2007-06-20 17:04 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-06-20 20:30 ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-24 17:45 ` Alexander Gabert
2007-06-25 3:45 ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-25 4:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-25 5:12 ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-25 7:09 ` Jakub Jelinek
2007-06-25 15:02 ` Alexander Gabert
2007-06-25 15:20 ` Matt Mackall
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