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Re: src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog autoload.cc autolo ...


On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 02:00:17PM +0400, egor duda wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Thursday, 03 May, 2001 corinna@sourceware.cygnus.com wrote:
> 
> cscc>         * net.cc (wsock_init): Add guard variable handling. Take care
> cscc>         to call WSAStartup only once. Load WSAStartup without using
> cscc>         autoload wrapper to eliminate recursion.  Eliminate FIONBIO
> cscc>         and srandom stuff.
> 
> actually, srandom stuff was calles purposively in wsock_init. it's
> supposed to make secret cookies for AF_UNIX sockets random. i know
> that calling srandom() isn't the best way to assure this, but it's
> better than nothing. I'll probably replace newlib's random to calls to
> windows crypto-api, but until then, i think, srandom should be called
> during init.

Calling srandom isn't correct since the random number generator
has to be initialized with a seed of 1 by default. Calling
srandom inside of Cygwin destroys that behaviour, unfortunately.

Corinna

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