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FreeBSD random number generator broken for last 4 months

FreeBSD random number generator broken for last 4 months

Posted Feb 20, 2015 20:15 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: FreeBSD random number generator broken for last 4 months by rodgerd
Parent article: FreeBSD random number generator broken for last 4 months

It sounds also like people who *understand* "here be dragons" and want to help by providing bug reports, are actually being chased away by the developers!

If I choose to run something unstable, find a problem, and ask "is this a known issue?", then what's wrong with providing me with a yes/no answer? I'm not asking you to fix it, I just want to know whether I should be filing a bug report!

I know there are various shades of grey, but at the end of the day, I do know that if I ask a simple question and get a bunch of non-answers, it is extremely annoying. Especially when it is blatantly obvious either (a) they don't have a clue to my motives for asking, or (b) they clearly didn't bother to read the question properly.

Cheers,
Wol


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