[Ecls-list] Random on OpenBSD

[Timo Myyrä]

Hi,

I noticed that ECL seems to use poor random implementation on OpenBSD.
The file in question is src/c/num_rand.d.
There the 'good' implementation uses /dev/urandom but such device is not
available on OpenBSD so it will fallback to poorer implementation.
OpenBSD has /dev/random and /dev/arandom and as far as I know both use same
implementation.
It seems that it would be trivial to patch the code to use for example
/dev/arandom on OpenBSD but I was wondering would it be better to use arc4random
functions instead?

Details about OpenBSD random devices can be found here:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=random&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html

Timo