Hi,
maybe some of you find this interesting: Yesterday I was grepping for
some variable in the source tree when I ended up in
drivers/char/random.c. There I noticed that the driver uses wall time
to re-seed the TCP sequence numbers for example. This means that no re-
seeding takes place if the clock is set back a significant amount of
time, e.g. if the CMOS clock failed or was completely off.
I don't know if the problem is severe, but I thought I tell you.
Regards,
Ulrich
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