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Re: libbsd package



Dixi:

>• I also attached the version of arc4random.c currently used by the mksh
>  package for Debian, SuSE and Fedora/RHEL, as the FreeBSD version which
>  is currently in libbsd trunk seems to be older

This is the more interesting as the version currently used by you only
exposes part of the standardised interface: only arc4random(), but not,
for instance, arc4random_addrandom(), which should be usable by apps too.
(In fact, I just wrote something intended to use it, again.)

bye,
//mirabilos
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