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demerphq
Date:
October 29, 2012 23:18
Subject:
Re: Eliminating the "rehash" mechanism for 5.18
Message ID:
CANgJU+Wir8m=S3SBhCfTCRvTtH4mUVSfH7rZPa=VegC1ANUFdg@mail.gmail.com
On Tuesday, 30 October 2012, Eric Brine wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 1:55 PM, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'demerphq@gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
>
>> The solution to this problem is simple, merely choose a random hash
>> seed at process start up
>
>
> Does it reseed on fork?
>

No. The seed is initialized before any hash operations have occurred at
all, so long before fork.

Yves


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