[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] configure: libbsd support for arc4random()

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Tue Dec 8 13:27:21 CET 2015


On Sun,  6 Dec 2015 22:56:33 -0500
Ganesh Ajjanagadde <gajjanagadde at gmail.com> wrote:

> On non-BSD machines, there exists a package libbsd for providing BSD
> functionality. This can be used to get support for arc4random.
> 
> Thus, an opt-in --enable-libbsd is added to configure for this
> functionality.
> 
> Tested on GNU/Linux.
> 

This doesn't seem worth the trouble at all. Who is even going to use
it, and why, and what additional hidden bugs will it cause?


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