cvs commit: src/games/fortune/fortune fortune.c

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Sun Jul 24 06:39:37 GMT 2005


Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     games/fortune/fortune fortune.c 
>   Log:
>   My change, namely srandomdev() addition, was backed out even without
>   discussing with me, and I obviously disagree seeing that afterwards
>   (srandomdev() back out not fix any thing, it can only mask the problem).
>   
>   So, back out the back out and return srandomdev().

Approved by:	security-officer (cperciva)

Any change which helps to make a security problem obvious is a good thing, and
a commit which (like revision 1.28) simply hides a security problem from users
is Not Desired.

Colin Percival


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