svn commit: r226100 - head/sys/teken/stress
Andrey Chernov
ache at FreeBSD.ORG
Fri Oct 7 12:55:51 UTC 2011
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 12:42:03PM +0000, Ed Schouten wrote:
> Author: ed
> Date: Fri Oct 7 12:42:03 2011
> New Revision: 226100
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/226100
>
> Log:
> Simply let teken_stress use arc4random.
>
> This makes it run quite a bit faster, since it makes system calls less
> often.
It is because we still have in some sense incorrect (father&son the same
sequence after fork) arc4random() implementation with the patch stucking
in the so-called "FreeBSD Security Team" review already several years.
OpenBSD version have at least one syscall per arc4random() call
- getpid().
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